the so-called women's question is a whole-people question.

It is no longer enough to point out what we don't like, we have to work out 'What sort of society do we want?

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.

In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time, project its own image onto history.

When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.

Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.

There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.

Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others.

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

Whether we know it or not, our lives are acts of imagination and the world is continually re-imagined through us.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.

This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.

Work cures everything.

Frustration is not the way to go.

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good