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

Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as men's literature. I would say that women have been hindered from creating for a variety of reasons, as Virginia Woolf so admirably explained in A Room of One's Own. When they have created, on the whole they have been recognized. In literature it hasn't been nearly as oppressive as in, say, painting, where even the existence of so many women painters has always been denied.

I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

Cooking is revolution and creation.

I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.

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.

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.