I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

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.

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.

I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

You have to start from where you are today and from what can be done.