“Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's”

“How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”

“A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.”

“Having contact sheets for all sorts of episodes in your life seemed to me intriguing and desirable. So much of my own history is beclouded by time, but a few sharp rays, in the form of pictures, falling upon a given day would resuscitate whole contexts. And from this archipelago of moments, scenes, episodes, you could see the larger tectonic movements of your life forming and unforming. You would be reminded of who you are. Or at least of who you were.”

“The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.”

“ A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.”