At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women who have important posts very often adopt masculine standards-power, ambition, personal success - and cut themselves off from other women.

I don't want to be just another blade of grass.

Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these movements, where everyone believed there was going to be true equality, fraternity between men and women, and that together they were going to struggle against this rotten society, even there they noticed that the leftists, the militants, kept them "in their place." Women made the coffee while the others did the talking; they were the ones who typed the letters.