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.

I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere and which make them sick and ill-tempered, depressive and poison the lives of their husbands and children. It's much better to arrive at a collective consciousness of this problem, which is both a kind of therapy and the basis for a struggle.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.