To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.