It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.