Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

all success cloaks a surrender

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.

I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of imagining, of choosing, of deciding for themselves; this incapacity was expressed by their conformism; in every domain of life they employed only the abstract measure of money, because they were unable to trust to their own judgment.