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

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.