Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The situation itself demands your total commitment as an individual, just as in your political commitments.

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

There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!

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.