They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.

How accommodating love is; it forgives everything.

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

Women age more in company because they have more relationships. Men have buddies. They have acquaintances, they have comrades. Friends as women have, the friends that of the soul that you share everything, that you witness each other's lives, that you talk their, your, heart out, that you cry with, that you ask money when you need, that.

When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.