He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time

I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.

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.

There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she will speak of it in exactly the same way as a man. But if she speaks of her own personal problems as a woman, she will obviously speak in another way.

--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.