There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: 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 existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

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.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.