I am growing up. I am losing my illusions perhaps to acquire new ones.
At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
As a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
The night is not a tumultuous black ocean in which you sink or sail as a star. As a matter of fact it was a wet November night.
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.