it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.

It's true that this is one of the problems which often arises among my radical, revolutionary feminist friends: Do you have to join the system or not? On the one hand, if you don't, you risk being ineffectual. But if you do, from that moment on, you place your feminism at the service of a system which you want to take apart.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.