The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.

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

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.