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.

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!

There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.