Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually translated itself into solitary, individualist, disagreeable manifestations - the whole history of the taming of the shrew, the woman-shrew. They weren't shrews without cause.

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

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

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.