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

immortality is a terrible curse.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much to be feminine and not feminist. And then she is so gaga before so many men. She talks about men I know in France, men who were less than nothing, and she considers them kings, extraordinary people.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.