I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

Better immersion than to live untouched.

Every woman who writes is a survivor.

The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. We are a species that makes changes.

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.