She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

Buying is profound pleasure.

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.