If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?

Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

Live with no time-out.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.