A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized

I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.