The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other...when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.