Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually translated itself into solitary, individualist, disagreeable manifestations - the whole history of the taming of the shrew, the woman-shrew. They weren't shrews without cause.

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?

There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.