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.

I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere and which make them sick and ill-tempered, depressive and poison the lives of their husbands and children. It's much better to arrive at a collective consciousness of this problem, which is both a kind of therapy and the basis for a struggle.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him.

The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.

all success cloaks a surrender

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.