“ My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family. Bobby Clarke
“ Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I'm drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what… Beyonce Knowles
“ France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. Charles Baudelaire
“ A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears. Anne Roiphe
“ Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, stea… Jennifer Chiaverini
“ I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food. Kabir Bedi
“ The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for build… Walter Gropius
“ Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whose voice was so delicate it was rumored she endangered it even by speaking, her silences as famous as… Alexander Chee
“ Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. Simone de Beauvoir
“ Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed. Courtney Love
“ A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead. James Randi
“ I was standing right behind Marilyn, completely invisible, when she sang 'Happy birthday, Mr. President.' And indeed, the corny thing happened: Her dress split for my benefit, and there was Marilyn, a… Mike Nichols
“ I used to get into bed with my mother every morning, almost until she died, and talk about everything. She was my closest confidante always. I had no secrets from her. Miriam Margolyes
“ Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity. Leonardo da Vinci
