Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find itself changed in a feminist manner. It will nonetheless be the language. You can't not use this universal instrument; you can't create an artificial language, in my opinion. But naturally, each writer must use it in his/her own way.

You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.

Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

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.

No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.