On ne na|"t pas femme: on le devient. One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman.

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 cannot travel to the known

No matter how long a shallow foundation supports a luxuriant structure, it will always collapse back to its thin rank, flouting out emotions.

You can't have a goal without determination, because without the determination the goal will die.

Oh, you’re hardly one to talk. Look where ogling a man got you.

Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.

I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

His heart is kind and those big hands are soft. He speaks a language that can change what I believe.

A human being can stand any amount of pain.

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

Virtue is too often merely local.