It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

It's true that this is one of the problems which often arises among my radical, revolutionary feminist friends: Do you have to join the system or not? On the one hand, if you don't, you risk being ineffectual. But if you do, from that moment on, you place your feminism at the service of a system which you want to take apart.

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.

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

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