Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.

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[...].

The person I am today would like to thank the person I was 5 years ago for not giving up. You're awesome!

Life is a worthwhile adventure.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.

I sincerely pity the poor man you marry. I doubt he’ll have a moment’s peace.

Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorn'd.

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.

We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.

It takes courage to get clear about what your vision of the work is and to be persistent about it and pursue it, whatever you're saying. I'm still in a long learning process.

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.