I felt free, once I realized i was never going to fit the narrow mold that society wanted me to fit in.

I know my curves are sexy and I want everyone else to know that theirs are too. There is no reason to hide and every reason to flaunt.

There is not one standard definition of beauty or one perfect size.

There is no reason to hide and every reason to flaunt.

I am always being asked to gain or lose weight, but I am at a point now where I don't care anymore. I love my body, I love my super-hourglass shape and I love showing it off.

I don't want women to hold themselves back. I think there are too many women who are self-conscious about the way they look - the way they see themselves in the mirror.

Love yourself. Be proud of who you are.

For me, wearing lingerie isn't about anyone else but me. If I dressed for others I would be a miserable person.

We are lucky to live in a world made up of so many different kinds of people and I am confident in the direction we are going.

I always say wear what makes you feel most confident, and confidence doesn't always come over night.

Growing up I didn't have curvy role models, mainly because I didn't see enough curvy women represented in major ads.

297. We cannot reform without focusing on God and His principles

Effort supposes resistance.

I've never dated (casually). Ever. It's kind of weird. I did have a boyfriend in junior high who was a kleptomaniac. We'd leave stores and he'd come out with something for me.

My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy.

I went out with a girl last night. She wasn't a Lana Turner. She was more of a stomach turner.

Maybe I've moved to the dark side, but it's clean and nice and we never run out of toilet paper.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?