Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?

Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.