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.

But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: let´s turn on the gas at once. And you don´t turn it on.

If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to be avant-garde, and under this pretext, painters take some old scraps and call it avant-garde.

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.