Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.