There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

It's true that this is one of the problems which often arises among my radical, revolutionary feminist friends: Do you have to join the system or not? On the one hand, if you don't, you risk being ineffectual. But if you do, from that moment on, you place your feminism at the service of a system which you want to take apart.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

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.