The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

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[...].

Sales is the parent of marketing.

Idleness induces caprice.

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way.

Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.

I always have an idea in the back of my head, but that goes with anything else that I'm doing. There is a sort of vision behind it.

I am open and will continue to be open to ways to limit abortion. What I am not open to is to removing the right.

Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.