Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

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[...].

I tell you the truth, so many people failed to do what they could have done because of the bitter things that happened in the past.

There were good and bad kinds of weakness in men, and she had come to the conclusion that the key was to know which kind you were dealing with.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Practice, the master of all things.

When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.

I won. I mean, I became president.

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone.

Man suffers through lack of faith in God.

The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.