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

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.

Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

I like everyone who tries to show that madness is, in large part, conditioned by society and particularly by the family, and therefore, strongly affects women.