No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.