I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.