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 cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.