I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.

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

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.