Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
Je sais qu'on ne peut jamais se connaître, mais seulement se raconter.
That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct
Misogynists have often reproached intellectual women for 'letting themselves go'; but they also preach to them: if you want to be our equals, stop wearing makeup and polishing your nails. This advice...
Some men, instead of building their existence upon the indefinite unfolding of time, propose to assert it in its eternal aspect & to achieve it as an absolute. They hope, thereby, to surmount the ambi...
But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.
There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.'There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love o...
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
There was still a question in her eyes-- one that she did not like to put into words.
Men of today seem to feel more acutely than ever the paradox of their condition. They know themselves to be the supreme end to which all action should be subordinated, but the exigencies of action for...
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do...
Being on the fringes of the world is not the best place for someone who intends to re-create it: here again, to go beyond the given, one must be deeply rooted in it. Personal accomplishments are almos...
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
Législateurs, prêtres, philosophes, écrivains, savants se sont acharnés à démontrer que la condition subordonnée de la femme était voulue dans le ciel et profitable à la terre.
It is difficult for men to measure the enormous extent of social discrimination that seems insignificant form the outside and whose moral and intellectual repercussions are so deep in woman that they...
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms...
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.