"I mean, what is a woman? Certainly not the jingle and glitter of a dress, not the texture of a skin, nor the shine of a hair."

"Yes, I was thinking: we live without a future. That's what's queer: with our noses pressed to a closed door."

"Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation."

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

"I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by it. I am sick of it. I am tired of being told by men what I am, what I may be, what I may not be. I am tired of being told by men that I am not a ma…"