Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
All oppression creates a state of war.
Men tend to take abortion lightly; they regard it as one of the numerous hazards imposed on women by malignant nature, but fail to realise fully the values involved. The woman who has recourse to abortion is disowning feminine values, her values, and at the same time is in most radical fashion running counter to the ethics established by men. Her whole moral universe is being disrupted....[H]ow could they fail to feel an inner mistrust of the presumptuous principles that men publicly proclaim and secretly disregard? They learn to believe no longer in what men say when they exalt woman or when they exalt man; the one thing they are sure of is this rifled and bleeding womb, these shreds of crimson life, this child that is not there.
That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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