In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that their wives demand checks, it is because they alone engage in a bu...
I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.
Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly. Let but the future be o...
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
Nul n'est plus arrogant à l'égard des femmes, agressif ou dédaigneux, qu'un homme inquiet de sa virilité.
Mais le pire, quand on habite une prison sans barreaux, c'est qu'on n'a pas même conscience des écrans qui bouchent l'horizon; j'errais à travers un épais brouillard, et je le croyais transparent. Les...
It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand wh...
In particular those who are condemned to stagnation are often pronounced happy on the pretext that happiness consists in being at rest. This notion we reject, for our perspective is that of existentia...
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...
He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time
By the time humankind reaches the stage of writing its mythology and laws, patriarchy is definitively established: it is males who write the codes.
All she had to do was make the simplest of gestures - open her hands and let go her hold. She lifted one hand and moved the fingers of it; they responded, in surprise and obedience, and this obedience...
One is not born a genius one becomes a genius.
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome stubbornness is stupid.
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.