When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.

Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.

I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.

Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.