“Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.”

“Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.”

“Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men”

“Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replay in sports. They've already forgotten what's happened.”

“The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin to dispute the sacred right of the individual ruler or authority without being aware that at the same time they are playing into the hands of a colossal state power.”

“So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.”