I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere and which make them sick and ill-tempered, depressive and poison the lives of their husbands and children. It's much better to arrive at a collective consciousness of this problem, which is both a kind of therapy and the basis for a struggle.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

Cooking is revolution and creation.

The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.

Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time