The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.

Jesus also function on the earth through the power of light. Light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom. That is their real power on earth

Shall you live authentically who you are or will you spend your allotted living the life of someone you imagine your self to be?

I think we should be honest about who is working in our kitchens.

In the mind there is no absolute or free will.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.

Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

Love is an incredibly strong thing, it goes everywhere, it's like water, you can't stop it. Love, once you have it, once you create a kind of pathway for it to come out, it just keeps on coming out.