Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

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.

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

The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.