Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.