Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!

All oppression creates a state of war.

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.