There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.

The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.