Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.

Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.

There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.