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

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

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

it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.