Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as men's literature. I would say that women have been hindered from creating for a variety of reasons, as Virginia Woolf so admirably explained in A Room of One's Own. When they have created, on the whole they have been recognized. In literature it hasn't been nearly as oppressive as in, say, painting, where even the existence of so many women painters has always been denied.

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.