"The problem with women is that they want to be men."

"There is an odd kind of pleasure in not being able to understand anything, in being completely at sea."

"I am going to die, and I will not be able to write anymore. This is a very serious problem."

"I have always been aware that I am a woman, and that this is a disadvantage."

"The human being is a being-for-itself, a being who is always in the process of becoming."