Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

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[...].

You make me wish I had a soul so I could be worthy of you.

I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

We don’t go to Scripture for permission to do what we think is best, but for direction to do what He says is best.

Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.

Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.

You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow.

The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles.

We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.