I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

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.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.