I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.

Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.

The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.

To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.

Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

I'm very old-fashioned. Occasionally I do wear underwear.

No other ethnic group has even come close to matching the abilities and accomplishments of Jews.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.

Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

I do so many things. Like when I was younger, if I drove past a house that I didn't want to live in, I'd hold my breath. Driving around somewhere like Slough I'd go blue in the face.

I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction - I've worked hard for them!

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.