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 have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

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.

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

One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.

The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.