Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.

He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.

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.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.