Author of 30 works, and a feminist from the very beginning, she had also produced essays on her fellow women, from her first novel-essay La femme et le manuscrit (Grasset 1959) to La vraie vie des femmes commence à quarante ans (Grasset 1979) via Ce que les femmes n'avait jamais dit (Grasset 1982) for which she had been invited onto the set of Apostrophe.
