“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”

“We have to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves.”

“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.”

“We must be our own before we can be another’s.”

“Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.”

“The best protection any woman can have is courage.”

“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”