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

The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.

immortality is a terrible curse.

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.

Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.

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

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.