I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.

And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.

I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, "this domain is purely for women." I don't believe that at all.