To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

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

There are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference. But from the moment that you involve yourself fully in writing a novel, for example, or an essay, then you are involved as a woman, in the same way that you can't deny your nationality - you are French, you are a man, you are a woman... all this passes into the writing.

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

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