from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.

She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

Can one say that there is a way of crying out, of speaking, which is properly feminine? Personally, I don't think so. In the end, I find this is another way of putting women in a kind of singularity, a ghetto, which is not what I want. I want them to be singular and universal at the same time.

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

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

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

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.