what is the greatest lesson a woman should learn that since day one she's already had everything she needs within herself it's the world that convinced her she did not

why are you so unkind to me my body cries cause you don't look like them i tell her

a lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves - responsibility

i hear a thousand kind words about me and it makes no difference yet i hear one insult and all confidence shatters - focusing on the negative

i reduced my body to aesthetics forgot the work it did to keep me alive with every beat and breath declared it a grand failure for not looking like theirs foolish enough to not realise i was already living in one

we have been dying since we got here and forgot to enjoy the view - live fully

you do not just wake up and become the butterfly - growth is a process

despite knowing they won't be here for long they still choose to live their brightest lives - sunflowers

wish pure love and soft peace upon the ones who've been unkind to you and keep moving forward - this will free you both

if i am the longest relationship of my life isn't it time to nurture intimacy and love with the person i lie in bed with each night - acceptance

borders are man-made they only divide us physically don't let them make us turn on each other - we are not enemies

never feel guilty for starting again

i will no longer compare my path to others - i refuse to do a disservice to my life

trust your body it reacts to right and wrong better than your mind does - it is speaking to you

it is a trillion-dollar industry that would collapse if we believed we were beautiful enough already

their concept of beauty is manufactured i am not - human

how do i shake this envy when i see you doing well sister how do i love myself enough to know your accomplishments are not my failures - we are not each other's competition

we need more love not from men but from ourselves and each other - medicine

you are a mirror if you continue to starve yourself of love you'll only meet people who'll starve you too if you soak yourself in love the universe will hand you those who'll love you too - a simple math

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.

There's a lot of people on the way up who want to take my place, so it's up to me to continue to improve.

Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.' My relatives seem to drop like flies around me. Who's next? Will it be someone I can't stand?

My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.

The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.

I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured.

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.

It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter - much of it an exact copy of one he'd sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold's passion was genuine.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, "I’m possible!"

Men are like lions. We hunt.

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

Loneliness means when you have no one to celebrate your success with and share your pains.

If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.

I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.

He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record.