"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

"Woman is not a fixed reality, but a becoming."

"To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future."

"When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men."

"A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day when he should not. But we do not choose the day for the sea. She chooses it for us."