I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.

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.