The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

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[...].

Only to close these eyesto sleep in the lap of loveand stay there forever.

With the right kind of people life is wonderful

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.

Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.

Good actors go to emotional places where nobody else wants to go.

Every film you do, you always look at it and you think, "I could do better," but I'm never going to tell people what I could do better. I think it's up to them to make up their own mind.

A lot of times I feel I probably would have ended up in a mental hospital if it weren't for the structure that 'Bones' gave me.

Time is neither friend nor enemy it's just a measurement.

Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?