Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.