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.

I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside.

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.