In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.

The mountain is never as big as it appears. You're never as small as you believe.

If you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice

Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.

A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

Men lie, women lie, numbers dont

Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.

One fan asked me to sign their sock. That was crazy. They just took off their shoe and handed me their sock and asked if I'd sign it.

I have chosen the positive approach - instead of stressing the bad things which I am against, I stress the good things which I am for.