Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on the run and to keep on going right on until you die.

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.