I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

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.

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[...].

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child.

When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.

I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old, or a year old or something like that.

Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.

The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

Those whom we support hold us up in life.

Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.