💬 Quotes

"Blood might be thicker than water, but it’s also a lot harder to wash off when you’ve been stained by it."

"Trust is a luxury that people like us simply cannot afford when the walls start closing in."

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

"For genius like Shakespeare's is not born among labouring, uneducated, servile people."

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."

"When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet."

"Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not merely for two hundred years, but from the beginning of time."

"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused."

"Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be much safer being condemned."

"I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm a reporter. I write what I see. I take no sides."

"They kill and they get killed... and in the end you hand over the world to the people with the best slogans."

"You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them."

"Whatever you do, I'll take a lot of beating. I'm not a hero. I'm not a saint. I'm just a man who's lived long enough to know better."

"Siempre hay otra opción."

"Los hombres crean sus propias desgracias. Luego, se preguntan por qué el destino es tan cruel con ellos."

"A menudo, el mayor peligro para un hombre no es su enemigo, sino su propia desesperación."

"Lo que importa no es lo que haces, sino el motivo por el que lo haces."

"El poder no es algo que se tiene; es algo que se toma."

"Si uno no espera nada de nadie, nunca queda decepcionado."