“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.

Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.

Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.

It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.

If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.

I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy.

Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.