The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

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.

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.

I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it was awful to be thirty. I felt that something was lost. At the same time, I was aware of what I could gain, and certain periods of my life have taught me a great deal. But, in spite of everything, I've always been haunted by the passing of time and by the fact that death keeps closing in on us.

Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.