I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands, Say, This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can...

Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.

I believe the act of giving birth to be the single most miraculous thing a human being can do and it is surely the moment when a lot of women finally understand the depth of their power. You think it can’t possibly be done, you think you can’t possibly take the pain, and then you do-—and afterward you look at yourself in a whole new way. If you can do that, you can do anything.

I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.

Love was always the goal, and my point every step of the way was that nothing is wrong with love, no matter what flavor it comes in.

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

There's a paradox in every paradigm.