Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.

Gwen Stefani

Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

Lord Byron

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

William Gibson

Non, ce n'était pas moi qui comptais, ni le monde, mais seulement l'accord et le silence qui de lui ? moi faisait naître l'amour.

Albert Camus

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason -- as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that way yourself.

Josh Billings

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

Sylvia Plath

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Kahlil Gibran

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Francis Ford Coppola

I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone,' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.

Beth Ditto