The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.
To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.
Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.
Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.
Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
The American woman’s inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.
Cooking is revolution and creation...
Let women be provided with living strength of their own.
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.
Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won’t change human nature.
Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.
It is impossible to do anything for anyone.
Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.
It’s true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.
Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.
The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.