Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.