I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.

It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.