Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched, how I would love myself! I would envy no one.

I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.

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

If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.