“Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.”

When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can’t quite get there, that’s when you’re better.

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

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.

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.

Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.

The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.

The institution of marriage is obsolete.

You can run the office without a boss, but you can’t run an office without secretaries.

When I’m in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.

Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.

Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out.

I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.

The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.