One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

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.

I don't want to be just another blade of grass.

I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.

The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.