"The female is a female only in relation to the male. Otherwise, she is an incomplete human being."

"The world is full of possibilities, but only if you dare to seize them."

"To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future."

"To make oneself a thing is to cease to be human."

"I am a woman who writes, and I am a woman who lives."