The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

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[...].

Be as bright as the sun then spread your light all over the world.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.

Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time.

As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it.

I'm too small for the universe to revolve around me. It is a huge relief!

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.