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

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.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion

Jaques was only what he was; but from a distance he became something more, became everything to me, everything I did not possess. It was to him I owed pains and pleasures whose violence alone saved me from the deserts of boredom in which I found myself bogged down.

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in 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 . . .

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion