"The only way to be truly free is to accept the responsibility of one's own freedom."

"I am a writer, and I am a woman, and I am an intellectual."

"Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day."

"The 'eternal feminine' is a concept invented by men to perpetuate the myth of woman as the 'Other'."

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."