This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

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.

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.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, "this domain is purely for women." I don't believe that at all.

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.