Feminism is a revolutionary movement which is different from the class struggle movement, the proletarian movement, but which is a movement which must be leftist. By that I mean at the extreme left, a movement working to overthrow the whole society.

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

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

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. Washing, ironing, sweeping, ferreting out rolls of lint from under wardrobes - all this halting of decay is also the denial of life; for time simultaneously creates and destroys, and only its negative aspect concerns the housekeeper.