I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

To love and to labor is the sum of living.