I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

Want to do something noble and courageous while you're on this Earth treat the mentally ill like they have some worth.

Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love...that will free me from this love...

There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result.

African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a way that might be very, very healthy.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film.

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.