Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

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

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

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.