If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

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 think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.