I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk." "It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

There is a little bit of hubris to want to change the past. It implies that you know better - that things didn't happen the way that they were supposed to.

When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

We cannot have foreign governments interceding in our elections.