“As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.”

“Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me”

“Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.”

“Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.”

“Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.”

“There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.'There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.”

“Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.”