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

Some guy said to me: Don’t you think you’re too old to sing rock n’ roll? I said: You’d better check with Mick Jagger.

Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it’s not important.

Women have to harness their power – it’s absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first ‘no.’ And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

I wouldn’t give myself any advice, because advice is kinda bullshit. Take a deep breath and don’t take any of it too seriously.

I wear my clothes, my clothes don’t wear me.

I never cared about money. I’m not destined to be a rich woman. I’m destined to be a woman who makes a lot of money and never has any. I’ve made millions and millions and millions of dollars and I just spend it.

I wouldn’t mind living with someone forever. I don’t really want to get married. I don’t see any reason for it. And yet I’m so romantic that every time I think I meet someone I want to live with them forever and ever.

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

There is only one value to having the look you have when you are young and no value to the look you have when you are older.

In my personal life I’m not very tough at all, but in my professional life, having to deal with being a woman in a man’s world, I’m really tough. I never back down from a fight or an argument. I’m willing to stand there toe to toe with anyone.

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.

I’m going to have wrinkles really soon.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

Don’t buy into the idea that women aren’t strong enough to do anything they want on their own.

You’ve probably noticed already that I’m dressed like a grown-up… I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.

Everyone’s got to have a dream. It’s not reaching your dream that counts. It’s going toward them.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

History will judge societies and governments – and their institutions – not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.