Buying is profound pleasure.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

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.

Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished -- that of man also.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.