Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

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

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.

The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; to say that it is ambiguous is to assert that its meaning is never fixed, that it must be constantly won. Absurdity challenges every ethics; but also the finished rationalization of the real would leave no room for ethics; it is because man's condition is ambiguous that he seeks, through failure and outrageousness, to save his existence.

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me