"The world is not a given, it is a project."

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth was undoubtedly the highest mistress I ever served."

"Man is a being for whom to be is to choose himself; and to choose himself is to choose himself as a freedom."

"She has been taught that she is a plaything, and she has learned to play."

"She has been taught that it is her duty to please, to be charming, gentle, submissive."