Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

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.

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. Washing, ironing, sweeping, ferreting out rolls of lint from under wardrobes - all this halting of decay is also the denial of life; for time simultaneously creates and destroys, and only its negative aspect concerns the housekeeper.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.