The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming.

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

I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find itself changed in a feminist manner. It will nonetheless be the language. You can't not use this universal instrument; you can't create an artificial language, in my opinion. But naturally, each writer must use it in his/her own way.

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched, how I would love myself! I would envy no one.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.