The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.

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

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Every time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in the past is as though it never was, my first drafts are so shapeless that it seems impossible to go on with the attempt at all, right up until the moment - always imperceptible, there, too, there is a break - when it is has become impossible not to finish it.