How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.

A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.

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.

None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.

Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.

The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down.