1. “The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitable that which must also make you lonely.”
2. “Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.”
3. “Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?”
4. “I was born black an female.”
5. “Never be afraid to sit a while and think.”
6. “American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.”
7. “There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
8. “I wish to live because life has within it that which is beautiful, and that which is love.”
9. “One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.”
10. “Ball points belong to their age. they make everyone write alike.”
11. “This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn’t seem to give an answer, we create one.”
12. “Once upon a time freedom used to be life – now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.”
13. “I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.”
14. “The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living.”
15. “I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!”
16. “The acceptance of our present condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children.”
17. “If, by some miracle, omen should not ever utter a single protest against their condition, there would still exist among men those who could not endure in peace until her liberation had been achieved.”
18. “I don’t want to have anyone else to do my housework. I’ve always done it myself. I believe you should do it yourself. I feel very strongly about that.”
19. “I care. I car about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.”
20. “A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men and people in general.”
