immortality is a terrible curse.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.

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.

It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses; but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.

If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.