Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women who have important posts very often adopt masculine standards-power, ambition, personal success - and cut themselves off from other women.

Cooking is revolution and creation.

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.

It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.