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.

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.

In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.