Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.

To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.

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

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.