Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

A woman with a mind is fit for any task.

I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world

It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.

If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons.

Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.

there is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire.

The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

Poetry's object is truth.

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color.

I totally believe that God has blessed me with the unique ability to know offense, to call offense.

When I awake Yesterday is far away When I awake I don't recall your name, my only friend.

Money is easy to hide.

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

You'd be surprised how much free time I have.

This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.