I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.

To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.

Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.