It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But, listed separately, I have a few good features.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?