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[...].

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.

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

Stop your doubting, my love. I knew you would find me. ~Jack

That's the kind of guy you'd follow to hell and back.

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.

Where I'm from? A little town called none of yo god damn business.

If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.

...and luckily I have enough in my head to balance what is wanting in my back.

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.