Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.

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 nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

The dream is fulfilled in due time.

Windisch closes his eyes. He feels his eyes. He feels his eyeballs in his hands. His eyes without a face.

When I imagine changing places with her I get the feeling I do on finishing a novel with a brick-wall happy ending---I mean the kind of ending when you never think any more about the characters.

The same song on a different day was a different song.

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.

I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!

If someone tries to tell you you are the greatest generation in the history of America, don't believe them. You aren't. You have the capability to be, but you aren't.

Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!

I didn't like seeing you with him" he says. "I don't think I'd like seeing you with any other guy....beside me.