One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.

As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.