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.

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.

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

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.