"

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.

"

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I’ve been swindled all the same because it’s never anything more.

"

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. ...more

"

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of ...more

"

The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.

"

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

"

Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual wea...more

"

Scriassine studied me in turn. "You're not so dumb, you know. Generally I dislike intelligent women, maybe because they're not intelligent enough. The...more

"

I hadn't known Chancel very well, but ten days earlier I had seen him laughing with the others around the Christmas tree. Maybe Robert was right; the ...more

"

Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality.

"

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

"

; the man who does not "understand" a woman is happy to replace his subjective deficiency with an objective resistance; instead of admitting his ignor...more

"

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 c...more

"

The little girl feels that her body is escaping her, that it is no longer the clear expression of her individuality: it becomes foreign to her; and at...more

"

: woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be.