It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.

There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she will speak of it in exactly the same way as a man. But if she speaks of her own personal problems as a woman, she will obviously speak in another way.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.