I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming.

Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a smile for the young future.

To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other...when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

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.