To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

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

You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.