A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

All oppression creates a state of war.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

What seems real one moment is fiction the nextand gone out of existence the moment after that.Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth, and change our only constancy.

New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.

His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night.

The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion.

Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!

I want to be with you forever and beyond.

Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.

I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.

Life is a journey, and I'm finding myself every day!

I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.