Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.

We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.