“Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.”

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.

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we’d never go on our own.

Great innovation only happens when people aren’t afraid to do things differently.

There’s a great place to go when you’re broke–to work!

If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones. After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.