Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered.

one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.

Patricia Highsmith

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

Alexander Pope

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Johann G. Fichte

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Julius Caesar

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Emily Dickinson

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

deeds cannot dream what dreams can do

E.E. Cummings

The other day I got a text from a boy, but it wasn't hot. I mean, if you're going to text me every day, you haven't seen me for months and you're trying to seduce me, you'd better spice up that text and make it more exciting than 'How was your day? I hope you're having a beautiful one.' Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

Chloe Sevigny

My goal is to give girls and boys a different idea of expression. It's not always about looking pretty or cute. It's about expressing yourself however that may be, even if that's being silly or goofy or weird.

Sia

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

Tahar Ben Jelloun