Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.

Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these movements, where everyone believed there was going to be true equality, fraternity between men and women, and that together they were going to struggle against this rotten society, even there they noticed that the leftists, the militants, kept them "in their place." Women made the coffee while the others did the talking; they were the ones who typed the letters.

I don't want to be just another blade of grass.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.