Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.