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.

I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him.

Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.

Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.