Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.