You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.

This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.

Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.