...literature must always be about gloom of one sort or another, on the principal that there is nothing interesting to be said about happy people. - Theodore Zeldin

To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they control it, wish to influence its direction.

I have chosen to write about women, because I am not one myself, and because I have always preferred to write about subjects which do not tempt me to be so arrogant as to believe that I can ever fully understand them, but above all because many women seem to me to be looking at life with fresh eyes, and their autobiographies, in various forms, are the most original part of contemporary literature

Din eskiden şiirseldi. Ancak baskılar altında nesre dönüştü. Bilimle aynı boks ringine girdiğini düşündü ve tanınmaz hale geldi.