Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and so on. It's a little boring to make up stories. So many people think that it's better to be very close to reality and to recount one's life as it is rather than to fictionalize, as they say, that is to transpose, and therefore to cheat.

I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.

That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.