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

However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

Live with no time-out.

Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also.

It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.