Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.

However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.

The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.