To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

It's only arrogance if you're wrong.

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.

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

There are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference. But from the moment that you involve yourself fully in writing a novel, for example, or an essay, then you are involved as a woman, in the same way that you can't deny your nationality - you are French, you are a man, you are a woman... all this passes into the writing.