“I am willing to go to bed each night at peace with myself.”

The difficulty for me is that I’m interested in so many different things.

I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes.

I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them.

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women’s movement for women.

I’m a multidimensional person and that’s the freedom of fashion: that you’re able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.

It’s not the absence of fear. It’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith.

Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like, I promise.

What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

As a child I grew up with a school curriculum that totally glossed over British colonialism and British slavery.

Together we can spread our message and support strong people of all genders.

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

Rape is not just a physical, violent act perpetrated against one victim, it is an assault on humanity.

It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.

All I can do is follow my instincts, because I’ll never please everyone.

As an actress I take roles I find interesting.

I keep telling myself that I’m a human being, an imperfect human being who’s not made to look like a doll.

Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

I’m so despondent about everything. Everything I try goes totally wrong. There’s no escape from this hole here. I feel drained. So far, I still haven’t found a real purpose in life. Sometimes, I’m afraid to get out of bed in the morning. There’s nothing to get up for.

The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, ‘Where the hell is my roof?

Before you go to bed; thank god for you still have a bed.

When I was a child, I used to fear monsters under the bed. I have since learned that most monsters are found within. And they are always worth fighting.

I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.

The bed was the canvas, we were the art.