Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.

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[...].

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

When I saw 'Independence Day, ' I said, 'I want to be like Will Smith.' I want to do something like that. If he can do it, maybe one day I can come close to a set like that.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself.

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear.

I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults.

I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.

The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.