In fighting for women, we fight for humanity. We fight for the future - for everyone.

I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

Solitude is the measure through which you could concentrate on using your time.

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.

So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.

Debtors will seek to cancel their debts. Creditors will try to collect, and the more they succeed, the more they will impoverish the economy.

There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.

I wish to confess my sins and I wish Christ to come into my life.

Nothing can relieve the pain. Not crying, laughing, screaming, begging. Nothing can change the past.

I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.