No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.

It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it was awful to be thirty. I felt that something was lost. At the same time, I was aware of what I could gain, and certain periods of my life have taught me a great deal. But, in spite of everything, I've always been haunted by the passing of time and by the fact that death keeps closing in on us.