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

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

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

Everything is generated through your own will power.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

Solutions are not the answer.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

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

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

I have always been that girl in the back who doesn’t say anything.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I’d rather just do me and have people say, ‚Oh. That’s interesting,‘ than try to fit in.

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

Nothing can affect my voice, it’s so bad.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.