"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

"I have been as good as a man. I have been as bad as a man."

"Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it."

"The meaning of life is not to be found in some transcendent realm, but in our concrete existence."

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