Patience is one of those "feminine" qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

Obvious and inexorable oppression that cannot be overcome does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.