"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."

"I am a woman, and I exist."

"The word 'love' has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one of the causes of the serious misunderstandings which divide them."

"The present is not a moment, it is an action."

"The word 'love' has by now been so debased and perverted that it has become almost impossible to use it without a sense of shame."