"A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion."

"Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero."

"I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous."

"Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant."

"If we build superintelligence carefully, the spark that ignites the next industrial revolution, but the timeline remains deeply uncertain."

"Fear will knock at every door; only those with resolved hearts refuse to let it enter. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

"I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene."