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

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.