I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

No matter how many romantic poems you recite, no matter how many glorious tales of love you read, how can you really understand the condition if you've never found yourself in it?

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.

If the world somehow actually ends tomorrow, let all forget about the Mayans and just agree it's the NHL's fault

where everybody is guilty, nobody is.

The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

Sustained change only happens when we shift at an emotional rather than logical level.

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.