The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

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.

Buying is a profound pleasure.

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

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

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