Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

Women are rising. It's going to get harder before it gets easier, but we can do it if we realize that we have the power. Women will always be the leaders of change.

When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.

I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.

Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.

Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.