A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

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[...].

More Miracles occur from Gratitude and Forgiveness than anything else

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

Make the most of what you have and enjoy being female; enjoy being YOU.

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.

In America, they really do mythologize people when they die.