Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.

I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

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.