To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him.

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.

If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.