In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome stubbornness is stupid.

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[...].

Do you have a clear written purpose of your life? If not, why don't you make it now?

I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.

Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good.

Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.

Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.

Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.