On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

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

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.

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