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

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 must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other...when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.