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.

Old age is life's parody.

The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.

As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.