The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.

I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.

To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.