Habit has a kind of poetry.

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[...].

I kept you so well, buried beneath the darkest shame and stilled with filthy lies. Perhaps I should have dug deeper.

A hound will die for you, but never lie to you.

Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

Do not be like those on whom advice has no effect and who require punishment to correct themselves.

I will walk where my own nature would be leading.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men... they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

It was important to me to have a wedding and walk in white, because sometimes we feel that at a certain age you should act a certain way. You can find love at any age. You just have to go for it.