1. “Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.”
2. “I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.”
3. “It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.”
4. “Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.” ‘
5. “One day, I was already old, in the entrance of a public place a man came up to me. He introduced himself and said, "I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.”
6. “The best way to fill time is to waste it .”
7. “The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.”’
8. "The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."
9. “Writing is trying to know beforehand what one would write if one wrote, which one never knows until afterward.”
10. “You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.”
