Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much to be feminine and not feminist. And then she is so gaga before so many men. She talks about men I know in France, men who were less than nothing, and she considers them kings, extraordinary people.

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.

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.