It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. Washing, ironing, sweeping, ferreting out rolls of lint from under wardrobes - all this halting of decay is also the denial of life; for time simultaneously creates and destroys, and only its negative aspect concerns the housekeeper.

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

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

all success cloaks a surrender

If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.