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

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

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

One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.

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.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.