Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women who have important posts very often adopt masculine standards-power, ambition, personal success - and cut themselves off from other women.

To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.