Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

Lady Gaga

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

Marie Corelli

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

Ernest Hemingway

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Simone Weil

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Phi

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Bob Dylan

Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person.

Thomas Szasz

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

Roland Joffe

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

Pope John Paul II

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Mary Catherine Bateson

There is only one class of men, the privileged class

Albert Camus

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

Thomas Dolby