The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

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.

It is the church that must proclaim the law out of Zion

I only hope I may not be ruined, ” she was saying miserably. “I should be obliged to marry you after all, and then I’d likely murder you before the wedding breakfast was over.

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

We need people like me in the Labour party.

Russia is new in terms of nuclear. America is old.

Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential.

There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

You’re able to accomplish anything you set out to accomplish.

Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you vegetate.

I never voted for anybody. I always voted against.