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.

Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.

If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.