“I don’t find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.”

Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.

Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.

A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don’t think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.

What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that’s a very small aspect of my life.

Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.

Value your health above everything.

A woman’s compassion and gentleness are often taken for her weakness, never push someone to a point where they have nothing to loose anymore, you only give them a freedom not many know, such people don’t only become dangerous but lethal as well

When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.

All beautiful things in this world are because of women.

I love folk music of any tradition.

As a woman, we don’t have to hope to get our dues.

When I was a little girl I decorated myself with pearls, cut my own hair, wore thigh high socks and heels. People laughed at me.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.

I don’t really give into all that philosophical talks that ‘money is not everything.

People will try and confine you in adjectives, they will either declare you beautiful or call you ugly, either way it will box you, rise above their perception of you, free yourself and let your deeds define you.

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

I love to chase my shadow to feel how it rests in the dark.

You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!

It’s okay,’ you know? It’s okay to be you. It’s okay to just not be okay. It’s okay to not be okay.

When you experience loss, people say you’ll move through the 5 stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance. What they don’t tell you is that you’ll cycle through them all every day.

The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

The walls of my room turn gray, the world began to crumble, the flowers withered, the birds lost their wings, the paintings became colorless, the sunlight was lost and the moon was no more.

When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.