Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.

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

There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.