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

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, "this domain is purely for women." I don't believe that at all.