I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.

There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.