The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

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

Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women who have important posts very often adopt masculine standards-power, ambition, personal success - and cut themselves off from other women.