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

A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?

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

One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.

The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists only by being spent and there is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone, and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.