My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

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

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

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.