Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.

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[...].

What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

I don't go out and play football and stuff - that's not me. I want to think, I want to build, I want to talk, I want to create.

I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.

Love just happens, you know.

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

I'm like a fine wine. I get better with age. The best is yet to come.

The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.