All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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.
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
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.
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.