Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

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[...].

Think of working forever at something you love to do, for [the] one you love with all your heart, and never getting tired! We will never know weariness in heaven.

It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked.

We only get to play this game one time, one life.

My life is not just about the past.

I want to be contributing and working with people that I like and love, and this was the perfect combination.

The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.

Art opens the fishiest eye . . .

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.