There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.

A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.