The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.