Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, "this domain is purely for women." I don't believe that at all.

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.

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women who have important posts very often adopt masculine standards-power, ambition, personal success - and cut themselves off from other women.

I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.