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.

Can one say that there is a way of crying out, of speaking, which is properly feminine? Personally, I don't think so. In the end, I find this is another way of putting women in a kind of singularity, a ghetto, which is not what I want. I want them to be singular and universal at the same time.

There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.