I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find itself changed in a feminist manner. It will nonetheless be the language. You can't not use this universal instrument; you can't create an artificial language, in my opinion. But naturally, each writer must use it in his/her own way.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.