The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.

To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

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

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.