I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.

Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.

I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

If I have to, I can do anything.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

Women willing to think big and bold and brazen are the women who have shattered one glass ceiling after another to make shimmering stars for the rest of us to see our way by.

Equal opportunity is good but special privilege even better.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

Ask yourself every couple of minutes, 'Can I go harder? Can I do more?' You've got so much power. Show me.

Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow.

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.