"Self-consciousness is not a matter of being aware of oneself, but of being aware of oneself as a being-in-the-world."

"I don't know if I'm a good writer, but I'm a good woman."

"Old age is a caricature of our former self."

"This advice is absurd. Precisely because the idea of femininity is artificially defined by customs and fashion, it is imposed on every woman from the outside. The individual is not free to shape the i…"

"I have always been a stranger to myself."