What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.
Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech.
There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.
I really like being a woman. . . . I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.
You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.
People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.