The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists only by being spent and there is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone, and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

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