At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.

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[...].

There are times when the way has to pass through sufferings to cleanse ourselves from the burden of the past.

A determined man, a man who believes himself grossly abused, does not listen to reason

What makes you wise is not what you learn, but what you practice. What makes you wealthy is not what you earn, but what you invest. So, invest in what to practice, and practice what to invest.

That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.

You're not a leader if you haven't been elected.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.

I'm not always open to creative input when I have my heart set on a creative idea or a message I want to convey.