“Husbands are like fires – they go out when they’re left unattended.”

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.

I’m insecure about everything, because I’m never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I’d like to look like.

For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.

What am I supposed to do, Sit around and wait for you? Well I can’t do that, And there’s no turning back. I need time to move on, I need love to feel strong. Cause I’ve got time to think it through, And maybe I’m too good for you!

Women are the architects of society.

I am a part of history whether people want to take it seriously or not.

Men aren’t necessities, they’re luxuries.

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

I felt impotent and out of control, which I really, really hate. I had to find sanctuary in a place where I could gather my thoughts and regain my strength.

Going hungry never bothered me – it was having no clothes.

I’ve been up and down so many times that I feel as if I’m in a revolving door.

Fitness – if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage.

I can’t listen to my own voice, I don’t like it. You see all your mistakes when you hear your voice. You see all your imperfections.

Younger men are more supportive and a lot less demanding, and they also have more time for their relationships.

American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife – but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren’t just housewives, they were community leaders.

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.

The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

But I do believe that a woman’s truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote

I understood somehow my mother’s frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn’t have a real use of her ability.