Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him.

In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of imagining, of choosing, of deciding for themselves; this incapacity was expressed by their conformism; in every domain of life they employed only the abstract measure of money, because they were unable to trust to their own judgment.

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.