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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.
Live with no time-out.
Old age is life's parody.
Habit has a kind of poetry.
Buying is profound pleasure.
Buying is a profound pleasure.
all success cloaks a surrender
immortality is a terrible curse.
Cooking is revolution and creation.
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
It's only arrogance if you're wrong.
All oppression creates a state of war.
One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
It is impossible to do anything for anyone.
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
I don't want to be just another blade of grass.
One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.
I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.
Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.
A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.
Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.
Let women be provided with living strength of their own.
The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.
It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.
Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.
In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws.
Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.
Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.
Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.
