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.

I think I have something tonight that’s not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I’m in public, at Dollywood. People say, ‚How many wigs do you have?‘ And I say, ‚Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.‘

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

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

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

Fashion is merely an opinion. And I’ve got a lot of opinions.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

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.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, ‚God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!‘

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.

I’ve worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ‚cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

I like to look good, my friend.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

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.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

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

Water’s never clumsy.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

I’m a can-do girl.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

I want people to draw strength from me.

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

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.