--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.

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

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.