Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.