I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

Let’s embrace being not normal!

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn’t truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn’t come from your spirit and your soul, it’s an injustice to your position. And so, I’m really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.

Solutions are not the answer.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

I just want to be myself.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

My fat never made me less money.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.