‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.

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.

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

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.

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.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.