I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

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.

It's only arrogance if you're wrong.