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.

She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

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

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.