If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over it becomes normal.

At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels for Herself and Not For Men.

Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.

I am just as human as the man.

Marriage can be a good thing, a source of joy, love, and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don’t teach boys to do the same?

A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.

But by far the worst thing we do to males — by making them feel they have to be hard — is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.

But by far the worst thing we do to males--by making them feel they have to be hard--is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.

And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males.

A man is likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative and creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much.

I should never call myself a feminist since feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot find husbands.So I decided to call myself a Happy Feminist.

With a beaming face celebrate the joyful day and rest not therein. For no one can take away his goods with him. Yea, no one returns again, who has gone hence.

Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.

Dig until you hit rock. Then take out that jackhammer and go a little deeper.

Love is a two way dream.

Once you let go of your morals, everything becomes funny

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

If the vision is there, the means will follow.

If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.

If I'm not on the red carpet or at a photo shoot, I never wear anything besides ChapStick. But I'll have a heart attack if I don't have my chapstick.

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.