I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me..

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive..

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility..

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody..

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed..

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in ….

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future..

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself..

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility..

Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws..

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men..

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.….

Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely..

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority..

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death..

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay..

You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done..

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women..

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….

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself..