I like everyone who tries to show that madness is, in large part, conditioned by society and particularly by the family, and therefore, strongly affects women.

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[...].

An effective life is a selfless one

How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?

It is not in the entrails of doves that the fall of empires can be read, but in the breeding of secrets and the multiplication of lies.

There is a leader in every manager, there is not a manager in every leader.

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).

I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.

I am the best there ever was!

The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.