If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager

I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well

When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

Music gives infinite strength.

The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.

Nothing was a more powerful compass of my mood or a better indication of my self-worth than the number on the scale.

Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something.

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.