There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.

The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show me all its secret hills and dales. As I was moving forward, so it was crumbling. Most of the wreckage that can be seen is colourless, distorted, frozen: its meaning escapes me... all that's left is a skeleton. I shall never find my plans again, my hopes and fears - I shall not find myself.

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

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

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

Old age is life's parody.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.