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

Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.

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

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

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

Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also.

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.