But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, "this domain is purely for women." I don't believe that at all.

It's only arrogance if you're wrong.

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched, how I would love myself! I would envy no one.