I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.

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.

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

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.