I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.

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

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

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