I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat.

As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

I like everyone who tries to show that madness is, in large part, conditioned by society and particularly by the family, and therefore, strongly affects women.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.