“: woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be.”

“A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.”

“All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.”

“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.”

“Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.”

“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.”

“Woman is at once apple and serpent.”

“As vivacity is the gift of women gravity is that of men.”

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

“Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”

“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”

“It may be the cock that crows but it is the hen that lays the eggs.”