If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

I don’t want people saying, ‚Should we get a female director?‘ I want to hear, ‚Should we get a great director for this movie?‘

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren’t empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we’re not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.