"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth— look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intende…"

"All communication is indirect communication."

"What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is."

"The objective truth is not for me, for I am a subject, and as a subject I must exist."

"Marriage is and remains the most important discovery of the human race."