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

There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she will speak of it in exactly the same way as a man. But if she speaks of her own personal problems as a woman, she will obviously speak in another way.

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.

It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.

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

The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints.