Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

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

Every time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in the past is as though it never was, my first drafts are so shapeless that it seems impossible to go on with the attempt at all, right up until the moment - always imperceptible, there, too, there is a break - when it is has become impossible not to finish it.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.