Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.

The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.

The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer.

When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.

A miserable scrooge whom lacks charity for the entire world is a menace to society. Spiritual sullenness destroys men quicker than gunfire.

when will it stopthe painthat darknessthat that thatthat part of methat was or Y-O-U!why can't you fill itwhy did u leavewhy why why?love hurtsbut so does life

Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven - of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

I'm just warning you here: Don't anybody ask about the president's religion! Don't even get close to going there. Don't do it. That is a forbidden area. You cannot even ask about it.

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.