If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

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

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.