Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

All oppression creates a state of war.

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and so on. It's a little boring to make up stories. So many people think that it's better to be very close to reality and to recount one's life as it is rather than to fictionalize, as they say, that is to transpose, and therefore to cheat.