Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me

Buying is profound pleasure.

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms of the dominant class.