The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will be cold, so that it will be betrayed and humiliated, so that it will be slaughtered by war or disease? They reject the hope that its hunger will be satisfied, its cold warmed, that loyalty and respect will accompany it through life, that it will be a devote a life to the effort to eliminate war and disease.

[Indira Gandhi] answered cautiously at first. Then she opened up like a flower and the conversation flowed along without obstacles, in mutual sympathy.

I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.