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

Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

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.

Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.

The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.