…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

All oppression creates a state of war.

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.