Philosophy Quotes

"Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens."

"Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously."

"I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them."

"I don't think that women need to smell interesting."

"I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'"

"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."

"People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do."

"Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice."

"I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom."

"To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue."

"I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding."

"But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no."

"Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide."

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

"War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."

"Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth."

"There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us."

"However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else."

"Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning."

"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."