In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.

To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try.

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.