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

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.

--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.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.

The renewed use of lobotomy today is particularly applicable to women: Because they do routine things, it is possible to take away their spirit of revolt, of debate, of criticism, and still leave them perfectly capable of making stews or washing dishes. It's terrible, this tendency to consider women something dangerous to society.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.