One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses; but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself.

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.