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

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.

One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.

An unmarried woman is way better than an unhappy married woman.

Some women are becoming the man they wanted to marry.

The courageous girl I write about is the girl I aspire to be.

Women have the ability to do whatever they want in life and are not less than a man.

Women are much more capable, braver, sharper, stronger and courageous than we think.

Man, all lives matter.

Let’s not close our eyes to those with special needs. Instead, let’s be a pillar of support and empower them to achieve everything they seek.‬

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.