In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

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.

Hello, Lady Witch, " he said, breaking into a brazen grin. "Sorry to see you're laid up again.""Occupational hazard, " Lily mumbled...

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.

I want my girls to be strong and self-sufficient.

On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

I'm not here for a long time. I'm here for a short time

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

America needs somebody to restore the strength of this great land of ours.

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.