It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.