You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.