The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

Can one say that there is a way of crying out, of speaking, which is properly feminine? Personally, I don't think so. In the end, I find this is another way of putting women in a kind of singularity, a ghetto, which is not what I want. I want them to be singular and universal at the same time.

Live with no time-out.