To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

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[...].

Eternity is a long time and it doesn't always work out that way, " Jareth says, a bit bitterly. "It's worse to love someone and then lose them, then to never love at all.

Lhe love of a book is what's in your heart

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.

Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.

Mistakes were made long ago. It is someone else's fault. We can't be held responsible, but we are very sorry.

People with good hearts are the ultimate winners.

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.