Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.

We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!

There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a masculine society, and it contains many male prejudices. We must rid language of all that. Still, a language is not something created artificially; the proletariat can't use a different language from the bourgeoisie, even if they use it differently, even if from time to time they invent something, technical words or even a kind of worker's slang, which can be very beautiful and very rich. Women can do that as well, enrich their language, clean it up.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses; but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself.

I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.