Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.

The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.

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.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.