To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.

I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him.

I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

It's true that this is one of the problems which often arises among my radical, revolutionary feminist friends: Do you have to join the system or not? On the one hand, if you don't, you risk being ineffectual. But if you do, from that moment on, you place your feminism at the service of a system which you want to take apart.