When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.

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

If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to be avant-garde, and under this pretext, painters take some old scraps and call it avant-garde.