It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.
Mary J. BligeI think women should band together to get us more respect in all the businesses that we're in because, you know, if we turn 40, we're nothing and nobody. We all should band together and just say we're not gonna go down like that.
Mary J. BligeGod loves me and sent his son to die for me so I have to live to please him because he saved me when everyone abandoned me.
Mary J. BligeNo one compares to you. Just remember that. There's no one out there - there's only one of you, and that's it. And whatever you believe about you that's great, no one else has it. And I can't look like you, there's no way I can slip into your body and be you, and you can't slip into my body and be me. This is all we're gonna get.
Mary J. Blige