All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.

Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually translated itself into solitary, individualist, disagreeable manifestations - the whole history of the taming of the shrew, the woman-shrew. They weren't shrews without cause.