Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.

Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

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

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.