Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.