"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."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"I don't know if I'm a good writer, but I'm a good woman."

"The greatest danger for women is to remain within the domestic sphere."

"Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day."