The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him.

It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.

immortality is a terrible curse.

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.