"I know of no other experience more thrilling than to be at the heart of a debate, to be part of the current of ideas."

"Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day."

"I have spent my whole life trying to understand what it means to be a woman."

"The greatest danger for women is that they will be loved too much, and not enough."

"The greatest strength of a woman is her ability to love."