To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

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.

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.