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

Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies.

This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.