Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.

It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses; but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself.

I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

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

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.