History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

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[...].

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

We can help the next generation, with the stories we write today.

Open your eyes

Music is the universe where everything is allowed

Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.