Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.

Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.

If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The situation itself demands your total commitment as an individual, just as in your political commitments.

Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.