Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

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.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.