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My work stops at publication. If the books don’t contain in themselves their reasons for being – questions and answers – it means I was wrong to have them published.

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Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.
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I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.
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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
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We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.
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I didn’t choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.
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I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.
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It’s the people who love us or hate us – or both – who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.
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Those who write need that “willing suspension of disbelief “, as Coleridge called it.
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A calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.
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As a girl – twelve, thirteen years old – I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.
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Women, in all fields – whether mothers or not – still encounter an extraordinary number of obstacles. They have to hold too many things together and often sacrifice their aspirations in the name of affections.
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Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
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I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.
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Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.
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The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick.
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Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.
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