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.

The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.

No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.

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

Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.