When I say women are the agents of change, I really should say women and girls.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.

I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

The secret of losing weight is patience.