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It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.



Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.



I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.



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 catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.



To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.



No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility



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.



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.








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