“Eternal woman: even in mourning, you want to make a strike, you want to seduce, you want to arouse interest!”
“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them.”
“Even though friends say they are interested in your life, they never really want to talk about you as much as you want them to. (68)”
“I don't want you to be interested in my life. I want you to be interested in me.”
“All actors are whores.They want only one thing: to seduce you.”
“If a woman could take care of herself, would she still need a man? Would she even want one? And if she didn't want a man, what kind of woman would she be? Would she even be a woman? Because it seemed if you were a woman, the only thing you were really supposed to want was a man.”