That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, "this domain is purely for women." I don't believe that at all.

immortality is a terrible curse.

I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him.

There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.