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

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which masculine society is firmly based. To put an end to this would be to send the present-day capitalist system flying in a single blow. Only we can't do it by ourselves; there have to be other kinds of attacks on the system. So a certain alliance with revolutionary systems is necessary, even masculine ones.

it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.