Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

And for always getting what she wants in the long run, commend me to a nasty woman.

But in another moment she seemed to have descended from her womanly eminence to helpless and timorous girlhood; and he understood that her courage and initiative were all for others, and that she had none for herself. It was evident that the effort of speaking had been much greater than her studied composure betrayed, and that at his first word of reassurance she had dropped back into the usual, as a too adventurous child takes refuge in its mother's arms.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

I want pockets in my dresses. I put pockets in everything! I want pockets inside my pockets.

My strength does not come from my clothing.

I have always been a comedian - that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for a long time to come.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.

Like the Christ Mystery itself, the deep feminine often works underground and in the shadows, and—from that position—creates a much more intoxicating message. While church and culture have often denied the Divine Feminine roles, offices, and formal authority, the feminine has continued to exercise incredible power at the cosmic and personal levels.

When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.