If you live long enough you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

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[...].

The ultimate aim of assimilating knowledge is to create new ideas or gain wisdom.

Here, falling in love can be an event, a proclamation without acknowledging that everyone you love could die an awful death, that loving someone is an acceptance of impending loss.

There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.

The snake, the rat, the cat, the dog... How you gonna see 'em if you livin' in the fog?

We take care of illegal immigrants, people that come into the country illegally, better than we take care of our vets. That can't happen.

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Without looking through the window, you can see Heaven's Way.

As a dramatist, I don't have politics.

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills