Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, "this domain is purely for women." I don't believe that at all.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.