Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

People lost the capacity of using their brain. It's all about the label. Not about the labels showing but subtlety of the labels.

Go at life every day with passion and enthusiasm... and when challenges arrive, simply do not give up.

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

Public behavior is nurtured in private; earthshaking measures come form careful steps.