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

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.

The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show me all its secret hills and dales. As I was moving forward, so it was crumbling. Most of the wreckage that can be seen is colourless, distorted, frozen: its meaning escapes me... all that's left is a skeleton. I shall never find my plans again, my hopes and fears - I shall not find myself.

That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.