Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

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[...].

Cheapskates...are too self-confident - and frankly too smart - to spend money on things they don't need and probably don't even want, simply to impress others or just because they can.

With life, everything that’s needed to be known can be known by human. No mystery can be hidden from you if you really try to look into it.

It is time to do away with work place policies that belong in a Mad Men episode.

But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true.

It goes like this: teaching is touching life

The only thing that counts is a satisfied customer.

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.

I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.