Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us

We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision.

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

The crimes of children reproduce themselves, closing their victims in cages built of nightmares.

For the time being—”He emphasized each word. “I’ll be the only one climbing through your window.

I am afraid to piss in the morning 'cause I don't want to waste any of my excellence

He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.

Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.

I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.

Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.

Hard work pays off, dreams come true. Bad times don't last, but BAD GUYS do.

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.