“She was convinced that women were as often victims of themselves as they were of men.”

“People often vented their rage on those who were the victims of their neglect because they were in truth blaming themselves.”

“For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in anaccumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimism were more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It was hard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep the past itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it.”

“Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.”

“If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be?”

“They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.”