There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as men's literature. I would say that women have been hindered from creating for a variety of reasons, as Virginia Woolf so admirably explained in A Room of One's Own. When they have created, on the whole they have been recognized. In literature it hasn't been nearly as oppressive as in, say, painting, where even the existence of so many women painters has always been denied.

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.