I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.

And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.