In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I saw that nothing came of it: first of all, that socialism was not achieved anywhere, and that in certain countries which called themselves socialist, the situation of women was no better than it was in so-called capitalist countries.

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.

There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.

One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.

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.

If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.