Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.

This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.