Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mut….

Women, in all fields - whether mothers or not - still encounter an extraordinary number of obstacles. They have to hold too many things together and ….

The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps..

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible..

I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually fin….

Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing..

The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.

I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned..

In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is ….

As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me..

I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder..

Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short….

It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of..

Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling….

I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence..

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors..

We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves..

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle..

I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's b….

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you an….

My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have….