If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.

I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched, how I would love myself! I would envy no one.

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.