I hate to disappoint my haters, but I'm not the least bit interested in being a man. I'm perfectly satisfied with the female role.

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

An Atheists loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we should work for now - here on earth - for all men together to enjoy.

There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.

The fear of hell is the basis for the Christian faith.

I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.

... religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

You hate me because I am the embodiment of all your doubts.

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

This crusade to separate church and state is only one expression of my raison d'être. I'm an atheist, but I'm also an anarchist, and a feminist, and an integrationist.

You never know where you can possibly reach in your lifetime if you pursue the path of constant and never ending self-development.

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.

Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.

Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.

Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.

Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.

The only reason I get out of bed at all on weekends is because eventually I can't stand the taste of my own breath any more.

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

Through adversity we find our better self.