The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

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?

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.