Men do not like tomboys, nor bluestockings, nor thinking women; too much audacity, culture, intelligence, or character frightens them.
Women’s mutual understanding lies in the fact that they identify with each other: but then each one competes with her companion.
Without doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one’s liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.
When an individual or a group of individuals is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he or they are inferior.
What would Prince Charming do if he did not wake up Sleeping Beauty, or lavish gifts on Donkey Skin?
We will not let ourselves be intimidated by the number and violence of attacks against women; nor be fooled by the self-serving praise showered on the “real woman”; nor be won over by men’s enthusiasm for her destiny, a destiny they would not for the world want to share.
Two separate beings, placed in different situations, confronting each other in their freedom, and seeking the justification of existence through each other, will always live an adventure full of risks and promises.
To make oneself object, to make oneself passive, is very different from being a passive object.
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in one’s self.
There is no other justification for present existence than its expansion toward an indefinitely open future.
There is an art to “catching a husband”: “keeping” him is a profession.
The word “love” has not at all the same meaning for both sexes, and this is a source of the grave misunderstandings that separate them.