'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

I call myself a 'domestic goddess.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.

Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.

An accepted deed is never small in Taqwa (consciousness of Allah), how can what has been accepted be small?

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

Kids, they are always hurting themselves. It's like, "Quick, get me to casualty quick!" while your doing something important like sitting down picking your ear.

It doesn't need to be consistently concentrated in these venture-capital funds and things like that.

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.

I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.