Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.

I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.

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.

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.

I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.