Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

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.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.