The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted.

I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.

Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.