If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.

I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.

Death itself is a natural occurrence, it is unavoidable, and the Stoics thought that part of philosophical practice is to get comfortable with the unavoidable, learning to face it with courage.

Sleeping with a guy isn't the same thing as opening your heart to him.

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.

Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.

You should be able to have good matches against anybody.

They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

The situation in Gaza is intolerable. Not one destroyed house has been rebuilt Ppl cannot live w the dignity they deserve

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.