The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.
Society codified by men decrees that woman is inferior: she can only abolish this inferiority by destroying male superiority.
She wished all the faculties she did not share to be looked on as diseases.[Elle voulait que les facultés qu’elle n’avait pas fussent considérées seulement comme une maladie.]
It is not in giving life but in risking his life that man raises himself above the animal; this is why throughout humanity, superiority has been granted not to the sex that gives birth but to the one that kills.