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

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

There are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference. But from the moment that you involve yourself fully in writing a novel, for example, or an essay, then you are involved as a woman, in the same way that you can't deny your nationality - you are French, you are a man, you are a woman... all this passes into the writing.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.

Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.