Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I saw that nothing came of it: first of all, that socialism was not achieved anywhere, and that in certain countries which called themselves socialist, the situation of women was no better than it was in so-called capitalist countries.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.