All oppression creates a state of war.

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male’s superiority.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.