Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.

I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.

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

Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.