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

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

To be feminist doesn't mean simply to do nothing, to reduce yourself to total impotence under the pretext of refusing masculine values. There is a problematic, a very difficult dialectic between accepting power and refusing it, accepting certain masculine values, and wanting to transform them. I think it's worth a try.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

all success cloaks a surrender

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

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.