"I am not a feminist, but I am a woman. And I want to be heard."

"I am so ugly, so mediocre, so undistinguished."

"I have lost all power over words. Can't do a thing with them."

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

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."