She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

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[...].

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

If it took me showing some warmth to get warmth in return, I'd do it.

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

If you aren't living your dreams then you're living your fears.

It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

I hope by the time I am president that we will have pushed ISIS out of Iraq.

But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

Count your blessings. Be grateful-- you're alive

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.