The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.

One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.

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

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