Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.