To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.

Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.

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.

She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.