As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match Girl'in the Hans Christian An….

I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot of girls, it's the iconic story and so ma….

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her..

I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of….

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life..

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down..

I get happy very easily and very often..

In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other. ….

I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training..

I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of sti….

I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.

I don’t predict a nonexisting future..

God doesn't just love all of us. He loves each of us..

I became Gauleiter in 1927..

All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls..

I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer..

It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I….

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up t….

You understand my music..

To me death is better than the defensive..

You are the one and only ever you..