I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

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[...].

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

Old habits are strong and jealous.

Adopt the pace of nature her secret is patience.

I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.

It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.

The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.

You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach.

Saving faith is the faith of God's elect; the special gift of God to them, wrought in them by his Spirit.

Change the rule and you will get a new number.