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

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and so on. It's a little boring to make up stories. So many people think that it's better to be very close to reality and to recount one's life as it is rather than to fictionalize, as they say, that is to transpose, and therefore to cheat.

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.