Once you've had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.

Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.

The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.

To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.

Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

I'm very old-fashioned. Occasionally I do wear underwear.

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain, ” she says. “Not books.

Bless you with the curse to remain busy always.

Never complain about your troubles they are responsible for more than half of your income.

The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret.

I pulled the burden from off my back and tossed it into the wind. And stretched my arms toward the sky and let my life begin.

Happiness is a thing of now.

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .