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.

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

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.

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

All oppression creates a state of war.