To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.