Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

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

Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually translated itself into solitary, individualist, disagreeable manifestations - the whole history of the taming of the shrew, the woman-shrew. They weren't shrews without cause.

The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.

You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.