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

Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also.

I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

immortality is a terrible curse.

Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.