There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, "this domain is purely for women." I don't believe that at all.

…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time

If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time.

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.