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.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

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.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.