"Women have to do twice the work of male rock singers such as The Rolling Stones. We have to sing, play instruments and get accustomed to walking out on stage in high heels. Never mind the pressures of your image. If something goes wrong on my stage in any way, from sound to style, nobody can blame a band member. It's Roberta Flack who gets the rap and looks bad! I'm the one on the bill alone, with no gang of boys or crew behind me."

(Roberta Flack, nome completo Roberta Cleopatra Flack, cantante e pianista; Black Mountain, 10 febbraio 1937 – New York, 24 febbraio 2025)

 

"I've built a hell of a good life without being in the driver's seat."

 (Robert Webber, attore; Santa Ana, 14 ottobre 1924 – Malibù, 19 maggio 1989)

"Le nostre esistenze hanno bisogno di libertà per la ricerca scientifica. Ma, non possono aspettare.
Non possono aspettare le scuse di uno dei prossimi papi."

(Luca Coscioni, politico; Orvieto, 16 luglio 1967 – Orvieto, 20 febbraio 2006)

"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its component fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers. That is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."

(Stephen William Hawking, scienziato; Oxford, 8 gennaio 1942 – Cambridge, 14 marzo 2018)