“It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity no to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.”

“My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.”

“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.”

“Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.”

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”

“A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.”