In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

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

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

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.