If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.

Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

There are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference. But from the moment that you involve yourself fully in writing a novel, for example, or an essay, then you are involved as a woman, in the same way that you can't deny your nationality - you are French, you are a man, you are a woman... all this passes into the writing.