One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

I remember being in Japan when Destiny’s Child put out ‚Independent Women,‘ and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren’t empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we’re not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman’s body is very beautiful.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Some guys look better as they get older.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

Each day provides its own gifts.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

Honestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.

What is true belongs to me!

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

I never hold a grudge.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated – but haters are losers. It’s not good to feed this aspect. It’s more intelligent to be constructive.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

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

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

I think that I’m perfect.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

Chemotherapy isn’t good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, ‚Well that is a good thing because it’s supposed to be poison. If it’s making the tumor feel this queasy, then I’m OK with it.‘

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

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?