But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: let´s turn on the gas at once. And you don´t turn it on.

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her head was lowered. Françoise barely suppressed a scream. The girl was pressing the lighted end against her skin, a bitter smile curling her lips. It was an intimate, solitary smile, like that of a half-wit; the voluptuous, tortured smile of a woman possessed of some secret pleasure.

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.

Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.