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

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is very feminine, and by that I mean that women are supposed to be very sensitive to all the sensations of nature, much more so than men, much more contemplative. It's this quality that marks her best works.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to be avant-garde, and under this pretext, painters take some old scraps and call it avant-garde.