"I have spent my whole life trying to understand what it means to be a woman."

"The body is not a thing, it is a situation."

"The point is not for a woman to be like a man, but to be a woman, to be an individual with her own identity and her own values."

"The meaning of life is to be found in the project of becoming oneself."

"There are admirable women, but they all have something masculine about them."