Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

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.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

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.

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.