The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.

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[...].

The enthusiasm to work hard and endless determination are the two great skills for success.

It is the nature of human beings to want, to desire.

It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh

I am permitted to travel in the corridor between sky and heather" from the poem "Beyond the Beacon" in TerraAffirmative

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

They misunderestimated me.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?