Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.

There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.

To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.

Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.