--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.

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

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.

Can one say that there is a way of crying out, of speaking, which is properly feminine? Personally, I don't think so. In the end, I find this is another way of putting women in a kind of singularity, a ghetto, which is not what I want. I want them to be singular and universal at the same time.