If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.

Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these movements, where everyone believed there was going to be true equality, fraternity between men and women, and that together they were going to struggle against this rotten society, even there they noticed that the leftists, the militants, kept them "in their place." Women made the coffee while the others did the talking; they were the ones who typed the letters.

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.