... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.

Should' is my all time least favorite word. It’s this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves.

I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now." "All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.

If you feel helpless, go help someone.

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

I have an old soul. I don't know any real-life lingo, so I have to take it from movies.

There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what.

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

I do want to come across something, I do want to feel something and see something.

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.