Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

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[...].

In darkness there is death.

Belief isn’t something you can be reassured about. It’s something that has to come from inside.

When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.

I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own.

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly.

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

Manipulating situations is one thing, but lying is another. My theory (especially with girls) is that if you don't lie, you can't be held responsible for anything bad that goes down.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.