Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

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.

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

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.