A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.
Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
The ego is not master in its own house.
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.
I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.
To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
I always tell what I see.
If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
