I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.

It doesn't matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom.

If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.

Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask.

I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

Femininity for me means happiness and freedom...freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.

I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.

Because of the person I am I won't be knocked down — ever. They can say I'm fat, I'm thin, I'm whatever, and I'll never stop. I just won't. I've got too much to do. I've too much to be happy about.

I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards.

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

Single minded vision gives the strength of purpose.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

The history of media is the market share of advertising dollars has followed.. albeit with a lag.

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

What do you have to do? Pack your bags, Go to the station without them, Catch the train, And leave your self behind.