Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40 maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

Behind all their personal vanity women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves because then they just get labeled.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

The most excellent and divine counsel the best and most profitable advertisement of all others but the least practiced is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

We women are constantly at war with our bodies it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

For one thing I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

Virtue is a state of war and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war but I could not. The North was mad and blind would not let us govern ourselves and so the war came.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

We used to wonder where war lived what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place no matter by whom brought on we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without we must try to extinguish it.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is and tell it like it is to find the truth to speak the truth and to live the truth.