We [need to] stop treating each other like that, stop calling each other fat and stop with these unrealistic expectations for women. It’s disappointing that the media keeps it alive and fuels that fire.

I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman. I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that.

A woman's posterior is the key to my heart.

Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

"The oyster is a blob of glup, but a woman is a woman."

"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess."

"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere."

"Ah didnae really know much aboot women. Ah didnae really know much aboot anything."

"I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination."

"I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this."

"Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph."

"Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new."

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."

"Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her."

"A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke."

"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

"The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool"

"I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars."