The category of Other is as original as consciousness itself. The duality between Self and Other can be found in the most primitive societies, in the most ancient mythologies; the division did not alw...
The books I liked became a Bible from which I drew advice and support; I copied out long passages from them; I memorized new canticles and new litanies, psalms, proverbs, and prophecies, and I sanctif...
The adventure is which I have shared so passionately is not over--this adventure with its doubt, failure, the dreariness of no progress, then a glimpse of light, a hope, a hypothesis confirmed; and th...
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lad...
Les livres que j'aimais devinrent une Bible où je puisais des conseils et des secours.
L'idéal de la beauté féminine est variable; mais certaines exigences demeurent constantes; entre autres, puisque la femme est destinée à être possédée, il faut que son corps offre les qualités inertes...
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.
A woman's situation, i.e those meanings derived from the total context in which she comes to maturity, disposes her to apprehend her body not as instrument of her transcendence, but an object destined...
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
Lo que es seguro es que ahora es muy difícil para las mujeres asumir a un tiempo su condición de individuo autónomo y su destino femenino; es la fuente de estas torpezas y malestares que a veces las p...
In fact, the sickness I was suffering from was that I had been driven out of the paradise of childhood and had not found my place in the world of adults. I had set myself up in the absolute in order t...
Art, literature, and philosophy are attempts to found the world anew on a human freedom: that of the creator; to foster such an aim, one must first unequivocally posit oneself as a freedom. The restri...