You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

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