“for women live much more in the past… they attach themselves to places;”

“Women live entirely in the present, men much more in the future where nature is less well organized.”

“Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.”

“We support the right of women to choose our own lives for ourselves. If women wish to be lawyers, doctors, engineers, scientists, politicians, we should have the same opportunities as men, more and more we do…But many women wish to devote themselves mainly to raising a family and running a home. And we should have that choice too. Very few jobs can compare in long-term importance and satisfaction with that of housewife and mother. For the family is the building block of society. It is a nursery, a school, a hospital, a leisure place, a place of refuge and a place of rest. It encompasses the whole of society. It fashions our beliefs. It is the preparation for the rest of our life. And women run it.”

“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”

“People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.”

“Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.”

“We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.”

“The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.”

“Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.”