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.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.

Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive.

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.