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.

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

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.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The situation itself demands your total commitment as an individual, just as in your political commitments.

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.

‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.