To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.