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[...].

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

A feeling of joy if not shared or tasted is a waste of a chance to be embraced.

Believe in your God-given dreams.

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.

You have got to be loyal to people beneath you.

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.

I think you can look at a woman's legs while she delivers the news and still take her seriously.

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.