It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

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.

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

When women hear each other's stories, told from the heart, it gives us inspiration to keep on going.

I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

Race is a universal flaw in humanity. So yes, I've been in many situations where I've felt like the outsider because of the color of my skin.

The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.

It's not a performance to impress the Puritans

If you expect respect from others, show it first to yourself. You can't expect from others what you don't give to yourself.