... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.

giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success.

Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.