So I think if we’d just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we would make fewer mistakes.

I admire the women who can have babies and jump right back to work. As a nursing mother, I couldn’t sit there and just pump all day. I needed to be close to my baby.

Enjoy life, study hard, play hard, be kind to other people, set high standards, and don't be afraid to say "No."

I think it's a beautiful thing when you wear a uniform or a garb which represents a group of people, because what it immediately symbolizes is oneness, togetherness.

The last step will be letting my hair go natural. That's when you'll know I'm free.

I'm a self-made woman. I've never compromised myself.

First of all when you're a mommy like you like the consistency of being on a show like that's just peace of mind, I know I have financial, you know stability.

I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently.

I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young, a very young age, I realized what racism was all about.

I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

All of us have moments in our lives when we have to choose between what we know is right and what we feel obligated to do.

I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.

Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.

How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.