You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.

Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin.

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Your destiny is to find the truth.

I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.

It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

My father made sure I was treated equally with my brothers.

When we reckon without Providence, we must frequently reckon twice.

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

Children are so precious.