That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

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[...].

Even when I was caught in the web, I didn't give up hope. And as you see, I was right.

Quiet love is better than loud hate.

What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.

People always understand everything in retrospect.

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.

My biggest concern is trying to keep crazy Republicans out of office.

Ensure it feels like it's made by humans, for humans.

You don't just sit in the car and let some guy drive you through life, wasting your time.

We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good.