If you haven't been happy very young you can still be happy later on but it's much harder. You need more luck.

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.

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

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[...].

Some doors are open, but we are still searching for the right keys.

True power lies not in the spotlight, but in the influential shadows.

You sure as hell didn't come this far to only come this far. Keep going.

I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

I think the generosity of President Trump's spirit, recognizing that in the patriot's heart, there's no room for prejudice is part of who this president is.

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous