a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.

It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.

it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.

Secretly, we wish anyone we love will think exactly the way we do.

I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.

Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached.

I am not this hair and skin, I am the SOUL that lives within.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.

I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.

Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.

From the time I wake up until the time I go to bed, music is unfortunately on my mind, on my stereo, or I'm making it or talking about it.

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

I ever said back when we had our choice words I still told everybody that I respected him. I wouldn't want to have to do [Joe Rogan] job and I don't know anybody else that could do his job.

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.