Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

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.

Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.