What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

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 ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.