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.

Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.