"The female is a female only in relation to the male. Otherwise, she is an incomplete human being."

"The only way to make sense of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

"I am going to die, and I will not be able to write anymore. This is a very serious problem."

"Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day."

"She was not born to be a wife, nor a mother, nor anything but herself."