To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.

The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.

The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.