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.
Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he...
Nul n'est plus arrogant à l'égard des femmes, agressif ou dédaigneux, qu'un homme inquiet de sa virilité.
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.
The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its...
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself & in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying, & human existence is indistinguishable from an absurd vegetation;...
Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.
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...
I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.
Doomed to procreation and secondary tasks, stripped of her practical importance and her mystical prestige, woman becomes no more than a servant.
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.
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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...
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.