In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I saw that nothing came of it: first of all, that socialism was not achieved anywhere, and that in certain countries which called themselves socialist, the situation of women was no better than it was in so-called capitalist countries.

Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.

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

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.