... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.

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.

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.