I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him.

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

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

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

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.

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.