Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.

If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The situation itself demands your total commitment as an individual, just as in your political commitments.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.