I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.

All oppression creates a state of war.

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.