The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

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[...].

My life is an adventure." she said, growing confident as she opened her eyes again. "I will not be shackled to this satellite anymore.

To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born.

Classic music is th' kind that we keep thinkin'll turn into a tune.

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.

In middle age I've begun to embrace stress reducing behaviors. Just in doing yoga, for example, my health has improved dramatically.

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

I love you, Eveline," he whispered, though he knew she could not hear him. "Somehow, I'll make you hear me and you'll know that I love you as fiercely as it's possible for a man to love a woman.

Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.