I thought Erica Jongs Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that Ive ever read in my life.

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.

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

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.

It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.

I was so grateful that Lemony Snicket wasn't the worst movie ever made that I overlooked many things that might have otherwise upset me.

People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.

The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.

The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.

There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.