If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.

There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.

I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

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.

…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.