“The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.”

“To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia — to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.”

“I myself am just an ordinary woman. I simply had no choice.”

“Sometimes, it is necessary to have a taste of what it feels like to be an ordinary woman on the street.”

“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”

“I am no ordinary woman, and born to a different fate. I would not go whimpering.”

“woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself”

“For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.”

“Two things of opposite natures seem to depend
On one another, as a man depends
On a woman, day on night, the imagined”

“I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.”