It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

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.

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.

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.