Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she will speak of it in exactly the same way as a man. But if she speaks of her own personal problems as a woman, she will obviously speak in another way.

Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.

I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere and which make them sick and ill-tempered, depressive and poison the lives of their husbands and children. It's much better to arrive at a collective consciousness of this problem, which is both a kind of therapy and the basis for a struggle.