The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

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

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.