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.

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.