Never forget that it will be enough for a political, economic or religious crisis for the rights of women to be called into question. These rights are never acquired. You will have to remain vigilant throughout your life.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
In fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Within the given world, it is up to man to make the reign of freedom prevail; to carry off this supreme victory, men and women must, among other things and above and beyond their natural differentiations, affirm their brotherhood unequivocally.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
It is through gainful employment that the woman has traversed most of the distance that separated her from the male; and nothing else can guarantee her liberty in practice.
When a woman learned to read, the woman question arose in the world.
It is by playing the man, or the woman well that one helps humanity to exist. And it is necessary: it needs you just as you need it!
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Women forge themselves the chains with which men do not wish to burden them.
