The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

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[...].

To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

I want to have the heart and mind of a queen, ” she whispered. “I want it more than anything. But I’m only pretending. I can’t find the feeling of it inside

If you can't Smile for Yourself then Smile for Others

Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim's head or Bond's brushed against them, they exploded twittering into the darkness.

Here, there isn't much but stories and rain. And a fella can get tired of the rain.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

On the Planet of Baritone women, they talk low.

Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness.

African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.