It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.

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.

It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

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