Every man gives his life for what he believes. . . one life is all we have to live and we live it according to what we believe.
I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.
We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you're with them, you're there and not thinking about what you're gonna do tomorrow.
Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out.
I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization.
Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible. . . Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.