“Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.”

“On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.”

“The proletariat could plan to massacre the whole ruling class; a fanatic Jew or black could dream of seizing the secret of the atomic bomb and turning all of humanity entirely Jewish or entirely black: but a woman could not even dream of exterminating males. The tie that binds her to her oppressors is unlike any other. The division of the sexes is a biological given, not a moment in human history. Their opposition took shape within an original Mitsein, and she has not broken it. The couple is a fundamental unit with the two halves riveted to each other: terristic of woman: she is the Other at the heart of a whole whose two components are necessary to each other.”

“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”

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

“The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.”

“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.”