The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men – alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side.

Fame separates you from life.