No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

All oppression creates a state of war.

Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.

I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find itself changed in a feminist manner. It will nonetheless be the language. You can't not use this universal instrument; you can't create an artificial language, in my opinion. But naturally, each writer must use it in his/her own way.

It's only arrogance if you're wrong.

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.