Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal

There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?

I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women