Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

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.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.