Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

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[...].

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

Character is how you treat people who can't do anything for you in return.Integrity is how you act when you think nobody is looking.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.

I really enjoy learning about other people and I'm really curious about other people.

Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

Hope is not a financial plan.

For when last need to desperation driveth, Who dareth most he wiseth counsel giveth. [It., Che spesso avvien che ne' maggior perigli Son piu audaci gli ottimi consigli.]