“Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.”

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.

Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

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

I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.

It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.

If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.

I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.

Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.

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

I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.

When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.

Nothing hurts more than loneliness.

I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.

I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

You will find that one special love that you know is right but for some reason just doesn’t last.

You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.