The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.

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

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.

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.