Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

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[...].

Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever begin to imagine.

Everything is beautiful in its own way, ma belle, even if you have to look hard to find it.

I think we should wean Grandma.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together they hear Erasure.

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

It's okay to be sad. Everyone gets sad now and then. Even me.

My rookie year was huge for me as far as the learning curve, especially those last three games.

I was always like, "I'm going to be the drunk judge who's like, 'Objection!' 'In chambers!' "