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

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

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?