"I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself."

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."

"There is no such thing as a natural woman. Woman is a social construction."

"The most marvelous thing about the world is that it is a world of possibility; and the most wondrous fact about man is that he is a possibility."

"Man is defined as a being that has to create himself."