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.

You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.

We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside.