“One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.”

“Life's hard. To be in peace with oneself, one must speak the truth. To be in peace with others, one must lie.”

“There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.”

“The reckoning with idealism as a view of life is universal, but it also touches on something central in art-its life's substance. One must understand that it is impossible to distinguish between a picture’s form and its substance. As the flower's structure is governed by the intentional tension (when it loses the sap the form is lost), so also with art the substance creates the tension. Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.”

“War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.”

“There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.”

“To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard”

“We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.”

“Can intercourse exist without the woman herself turning herself into a thing, which she must do because men cannot fuck equals and men must fuck: because one price of dominance is that one impotent in the face of equality?”

“Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived”