I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.

The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream.

Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals.

To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.

There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.