Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these movements, where everyone believed there was going to be true equality, fraternity between men and women, and that together they were going to struggle against this rotten society, even there they noticed that the leftists, the militants, kept them "in their place." Women made the coffee while the others did the talking; they were the ones who typed the letters.

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.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also.