The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.

Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also.

It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.