I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.

If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?

To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

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