There are some things that have to wait and that can't just happen right now.

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.

I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

I think a lot of people compare their insides to other people’s outsides.

I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way.

It doesn't matter what you do. It matters who you are.

You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.

I'm into grilled cheese. Grilled cheese makes me feel beautiful!

I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces. I've had them forever.'

We're always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We're shaming each other, and we're shaming ourselves, and it sucks.

I'm never saying never - I'm saying I'm not about to.

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

I think you’re just as emotionally unavailable as I am. I avoid men because I’m afraid I’ll lose my heart, and you go from girl to girl to keep from giving yours away.

Most epiphanies happen after great loss or tragedy. The soul is equipped to deal with dynamic events because of its elastic quality. Energy is mutable, it can change its presence, but not its tone.

I've learned to really just trust my gut and to go with what I really feel inside.

I feel vulnerable in a good way. When I talk about my family, I usually have happy tears.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

I will be a president in a skirt, but I will wear the pants.

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.