My studies gave me only a very superficial knowledge of philosophy but sharpened my interest in it. I benefited greatly from being a teacher—that is, from being able to spend a great deal of time reading, writing and educating myself.

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"Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly. Let but the future be opened to her, and she will no longer be compelled to linger in the present."

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"One is not born a woman, one becomes one."

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"The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness."

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"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."

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"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me."

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

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"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

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"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

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