"Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it."

"I am still a human being, a woman, and I still feel pain."

"The human being is a being-for-itself, a being who is always in the process of becoming."

"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."

"The most marvelous thing about the world is that it is a world of possibility; and the most wondrous fact about man is that he is a possibility."