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

Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.

Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.

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.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.