For Beatrice- When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are.
The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
History is the autobiography of a madman.
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing, never lies for the sake of a pose, and conceals nothing out of coquetry. She stops before the facts as an investigator, sometimes as a physician, never as an executioner, and still less with hostility and irony.
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?
Watch out for life. . . It's harder than it looks.
When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.
I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.