“Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.”

One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

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

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.

Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

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

When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.

A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.

God has equipped you, empowered you, and anointed you.

Women make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

I feel very empowered and confident and comfortable with where I am.