Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.

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 is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.

Without needing told, without Jacob's lead, Akando dropped to his knees and lunged into the throne room of Christ.

Natales grate numeras?(Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)

Nothing that I wouldn't do, to make you feel my love

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

I've always used humor, but I use humor when coping with things in general.

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.

Often with film, I find that you're just really getting to know a person. They're just starting to sink in, and then you wrap the film.

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.