Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.

Some people think I'm saying, 'Women of the world unite -- you have nothing to lose but your men. It's not true. You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaners.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer.

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.

Above all, a horse should never be chastised out of foul mood or anger, but always with complete dispassion.

Faith is more than getting a theological quiz right. Faith is to know, to assent, to put your trust in, and to cherish what is true.

It's best to let her go," he says. No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.

When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.