... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.

To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try.

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to be avant-garde, and under this pretext, painters take some old scraps and call it avant-garde.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.