"Yes, I was thinking: we live without a future. That's what's queer: with our noses pressed to a closed door."

"I feel like a cucumber that has been pickled."

"I like funerals. They are brave things."

"The mind of a woman, for instance, is like a room with a thousand doors."

"I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by the male view of life. I am nauseated by the male fiction."