She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.

Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.