To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

I'm interested in that drive that rush to judgment that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do isn't it?

Society being codified by man decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces nor slander us behind our backs nor intrude upon our privacy nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

It is impossible in our condition of Society not to be sometimes a Snob.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

Similarly thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.