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

"Man is a creature of choices, and his choices make him."

"For a woman to be a full human being, she must be entirely autonomous, entirely responsible for her own existence."

"To be happy, one must be free."

"I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself."