There have been so many nations around the world that have had female leaders, including India.

It's okay to be you. You don't have to try to be anybody else. Whatever you are, however you are, it's fine. Nobody's perfect.

I think it's great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That's the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.

Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed in. Her story is an inspiration for every young person out there.

The harder [role] the better. Definitely. When somebody turns around and says, "She can't do that," then that's the one I want to do.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand.

I know I'm flawed - but perfect is boring anyway! Flawed is good!

As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl.

I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don't think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me.

I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that.

When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone would steal it. In a minute the world changed for me.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...

It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home within the pages of a book.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do what experience tells you to do and what your nerves let you do.

If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.

I made all my generals out of mud.

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.