We're bigger than we ever dreamed, and I'm in love with being queen.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

To Change Priority Is A Sign Of A New Discovery

Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.

Any teen gets into a little trouble here and there. It's not hard to find trouble when you're looking for it as a kid.

When my baby was born I had to know how to save her in case she fell in the pool or something like that. I went to one of these nursing places to learn how to take care of the child.

Your enemies, your critics, the people that are trying to push you down-God can use them to push you up.

No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.

If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.

The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.

I just told you to be quiet. That's one step away from asking you to wash my laundry and make me a sandwich.