Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

I like to think I've provided this faith. I also think that by providing faith, I've focused their pride. I say focused because pride isn't something you give. It doesn't even break out suddenly; it's a feeling that grows very slowly, very confusedly.

The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.

Life is a continuous process of adjustment.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.