I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize myself, in which I delight

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

I know all one can know when one knows nothing.

a writer is a foreign country

There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.

A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.

When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.