No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.