The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.

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.

Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these movements, where everyone believed there was going to be true equality, fraternity between men and women, and that together they were going to struggle against this rotten society, even there they noticed that the leftists, the militants, kept them "in their place." Women made the coffee while the others did the talking; they were the ones who typed the letters.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

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

If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.