When Goya was eighty he drew an ancient man propped up on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription CI am still learning'.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

The misfortune which befalls man from his once having been a child is that his liberty was at first concealed from him, and all his life he will retain the nostalgia for a time when he was ignorant of its exigencies.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.