To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

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.

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.