Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing..

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as y….

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity..

Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the expense o….

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed..

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever..

The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee: hers is the reductio ad absurdum o….

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will ….

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche..

I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which is so f….

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them..

Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, t….

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy..

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed..

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity..

Security is the denial of life.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness ….

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light no….

Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it..

Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world….

No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders..