The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.