Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.

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[...].

Spirituality is the poetry of our experience. Science is the gauge of our reality. Together, they create the essence of our humanity.

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

People are so prone to lean upon gifted men. And if they cannot have such, they get discouraged and scattered, instead of getting lovingly together and helping one another by their mutual faith.

My dog keeps looking at me as if he knows my secret, as if he and he alone can see my soul. That or he wants this pork chop.

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over again.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.

Everyone deserves a happy ending.

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!