In the martial arts, the guys respect the women fighters.

It's not the black belt that you wear on your waist. It's the black belt in your heart and knowing that you can go out there and you can do it. That's what a true black belt is.

You had women's kickboxing and they're in the ring and that's what I want to do. I just wanted to fight.

Through Biblical times, there have been great women warriors and now the sport is so populated that these are the women warriors that we have today in boxing, kickboxing, and MMA.

I always wanted to box.

I am a woman and I don't have the power and the strength of a man, so I have to use my technique and my strategy more than just using brute strength like some of the guys do.

Fighters before a fight, they shouldn't get riled up.

The belts to me, they don't really mean much to be honest. It's the people who I fought and me going out there competing and fighting.

Belts are immaterial. What's material to me is who have you fought, how many rounds have you fought, how many fights have you fought.

It takes a lot when you are a professional fighter to stay in top condition. You have to sacrifice a lot and I did.

Either get on the boat or get off the boat.

It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

She was afraid of nothing and demanded everything.

Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

Better to dream than to be.

I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.

You do learn from what you've done in the past.

All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.