"I am like a piece of driftwood."

"I have an immense desire to be alone; and yet I am afraid of solitude."

"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."

"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."