Buying is a profound pleasure.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.

I don't want to be just another blade of grass.

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

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

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.