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

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

It's true that this is one of the problems which often arises among my radical, revolutionary feminist friends: Do you have to join the system or not? On the one hand, if you don't, you risk being ineffectual. But if you do, from that moment on, you place your feminism at the service of a system which you want to take apart.

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.