If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

I never met a man I could marry.

There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.

[When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.