There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth, because it was their domain. That's changing a little, now.

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[...].

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Commerce does not have to be a ruthless, brutal enterprise that damages people’s lives. It can be a source of happiness, healing, and hope.

As a scientist I have come to learn that information isonly as valuable as its source.

I wanted to reach out and stroke her, to be gentle and tender towards her. Take care of her.

Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.

Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.

There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.

I remember Gale Gordon was in the pilot [of Hi Honey, I'm Home], and it was one of my very first professional gigs without having an adult take me to the job.

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

None can be so true to your secret as yourself.