Jacqueline Harpman

I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.

Being beautiful, was that for men?'
'Yes. Some women say that it is for ourselves. What on earth can we do with it? I could have loved myself whether I was hunchbacked or lame, but to be loved by others, you had to be beautiful.