To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

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.

The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted.

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

We can reorient science - for example, a kind of medicine much more directed toward the enormous number of women's health problems which are neglected now. But the original givens of this science are the same for men and for women. Women simply have to steal the instrument; they don't have to break it, or try, a priori, to make of it something totally different. Steal it and use it for their own good.