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

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

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?

Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.