If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.

Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.