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

At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.

Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.

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

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.