The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.

. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men.

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

We have been living through a time of sorrow. Our seed remains seed. Our nostrils are dusty.

To sit on the stile would be to continue a familiar existence. To cross the stile would be to begin something new.

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.

As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.

Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.

Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us.

A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thou­sand men.