Relationships take time and energy, and your job kind of sucks that all out of you. It takes an extra effort to stay present in a relationship when you are working kind of hours.

The most important thing you wear is your personality.

I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went.

To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture.

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

I'm okay if people don't know who I am, but if you remember my character that would be great.

I am trying to be guided by my passion.

Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture

I know that having the perfect body doesn't fix all your problems, or make you love yourself more. To me, it's all about being comfortable in your own skin.

Unleash the force of bliss within you. Radiate your joy no matter what!

But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.

If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.

The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.

I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.

The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.

Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but it is a terrific book of instruction about writing.