He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

all success cloaks a surrender