She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

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.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.

Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.