I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

Come on, you can’t name a truck after a chick.

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I want people to draw strength from me.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

In the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

If I can be a leader, I will.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.