You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I saw that nothing came of it: first of all, that socialism was not achieved anywhere, and that in certain countries which called themselves socialist, the situation of women was no better than it was in so-called capitalist countries.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.