It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which masculine society is firmly based. To put an end to this would be to send the present-day capitalist system flying in a single blow. Only we can't do it by ourselves; there have to be other kinds of attacks on the system. So a certain alliance with revolutionary systems is necessary, even masculine ones.

The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.

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