My father was in the First World War.

Mother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights.

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.

It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it.

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.