"At first, it was hard to hear the voice in question. It was muffled by the furor of campaigns and controversies. But after reading There Are Two Sexes at last, that voice is now all I can hear, more clearly and audibly than the rest. As a voice, it’s insistent yet reserved, full of passion and imaginative creativity, rich with secrets and revelations. I've never heard anything like it, except in Rimbaud...
What I’m trying to say goes much farther than recognizing the importance of a single thread of feminism. It is about sensing the transition, or rather, transformation, of one culture into another, in which this new feminism played a central role." Alain Touraine