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

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.