I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.

Some people think I'm saying, 'Women of the world unite -- you have nothing to lose but your men. It's not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

Isn’t it true that philosophy is a barrier? For sure it screens and modifies every bit of information that the mind allows to enter.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.

That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

It's such a trip how your body grows and changes, and at the end of the day, you have to wear what you are comfortable in and what you feel good in.

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture.

The light of love sees no walls.

I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.

If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a Gone with the Wind 2.