To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much to be feminine and not feminist. And then she is so gaga before so many men. She talks about men I know in France, men who were less than nothing, and she considers them kings, extraordinary people.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and so on. It's a little boring to make up stories. So many people think that it's better to be very close to reality and to recount one's life as it is rather than to fictionalize, as they say, that is to transpose, and therefore to cheat.