As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.