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.

I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

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.

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.