--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.

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

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.

Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

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.

One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.