“You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.”

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The institution of marriage is obsolete.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.

I’m a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can’t challenge the man I’m with if means I’m going to end up alone.

Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.

I don’t want to die without scars.

I don’t want to die without scars.

I don’t want to die without scars.

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.

Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed.

My body is covered in scars where silver blades kisses my skin and pretended to be love.

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.