“There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.”

“Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.”

“Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.”

“Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.”

“Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.”

“To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time any place more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.”

“There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.”

“When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those who refuse to pretend men are better than they are and better than women are. The simple truth — that men are only equal — can undermine a culture more devastatingly than any bomb. Subversion is telling the truth.”

“Pride. You have it where you can have it.”

“I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.”