The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

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

Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.