People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Ero ferma in un limbo e volevo uscirne.

A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.

Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.

Suffering gives us no special rights.

If you surround yourself with people who are trying to build, who are all willing to build other people up, they build you up!

I don't feel like I have to be the nice girl.

I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad.

Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas

I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.

I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I've never seen any place like it.