"I have always been aware that I am a woman, and that this is a disadvantage."

"If you want to be happy, you must be free."

"I am a writer, and I am a woman, and I am an intellectual."

"No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society must be altered so that women are not dependent on men and so that children are not dependent on women."

"I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to b…"