Clothes are not so much about who you are as who you want to be.
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.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.
On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.
Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The evil all arose from the fact that he had increased his needs rather than limited them;. . . As long as fresh needs continued to be created, so new frustrations would come into being. When had the decline begun? The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution - not a social or political revolution - only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.
As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.
Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.
Bring it,muthafuckas. Bring it.
The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.
War should neither be feared nor provoked.