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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.
In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.
The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming.
Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.
Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.
You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.
The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.
Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.
Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.
Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.
You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.
I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.
On ne na|"t pas femme: on le devient. One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman.
I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.
It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.
Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.
A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.
It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion
There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.