Occupation: Writer Birth: January 9, 1908 Death: April 14, 1986
Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stu….
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion..
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male..
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay..
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….
Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely..
You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done..
A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself..
When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men..
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..
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws..
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility..
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.….
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody..
Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive..
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal..
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in ….
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed..
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death..
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself..