“A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.”

If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.

If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

It’s hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he’s like, ‘You speak so well!’ I’m like, ‘What do you mean? Do you understand that’s an insult?

The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics.

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply.

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

Gossip is conversation about people.

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business,