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.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.