She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

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

The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.