Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

If I were a woman, I’d simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I’d got the vote.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

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.

Before all else, be armed.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears – I appreciate the details.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

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

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

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

I do believe in self-help.

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

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

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

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

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.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Sexism is real in this country.

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

I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn’t a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn’t be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn’t realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I was a proponent of the ERA.

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.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

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

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

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

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

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

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

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

I love women with attitude.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?