What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

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.

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

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

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 was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of imagining, of choosing, of deciding for themselves; this incapacity was expressed by their conformism; in every domain of life they employed only the abstract measure of money, because they were unable to trust to their own judgment.