Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time

This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

immortality is a terrible curse.

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.