To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.

Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.

We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!

Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much to be feminine and not feminist. And then she is so gaga before so many men. She talks about men I know in France, men who were less than nothing, and she considers them kings, extraordinary people.

Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.