"I have spent my whole life trying to understand what it means to be a woman."

"No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women…"

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

"To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to choose what you want to do."

"What is an adult? A child blown up by age."