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

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also.

If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.