"If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based."

"We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society."

"When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman."

"In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands"

"Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica."

"Men love women, women love children; children love hamsters– it's quite hopeless."

"There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children love hamsters. Hamsters don't love anyone; it is quite hopeless"."

"Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her."

"Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated."

"Women are never so strong as after their defeat."

"Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy."

"Women are the ones who knows what's going on,' she said quietly . 'They are the ones with eyes. Have you not heard of Agatha Christie?"

"If more women were in power, they wouldn't let wars break out," she said. "Women can't be bothered with all this fighting. We see war for what it is- a matter of broken bodies and crying mothers."

"There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out."

"We all know that it is women who make the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women."

"I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman."

"Every man and every woman is a star."

"There are women who get divorced in order to punish. Out of this bitter, bitter hatred that some of these women have for their ex-husbands, they turn their children against them."

"The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water."

"Silence is an ornament for women."

"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

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

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

"Women are nothing but machines for producing children."