To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized

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

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

Feminism is a revolutionary movement which is different from the class struggle movement, the proletarian movement, but which is a movement which must be leftist. By that I mean at the extreme left, a movement working to overthrow the whole society.