I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms of the dominant class.

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Feminism is a revolutionary movement which is different from the class struggle movement, the proletarian movement, but which is a movement which must be leftist. By that I mean at the extreme left, a movement working to overthrow the whole society.

It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.