Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?