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

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also.

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.

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.