Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves some turn up their noses and some don't turn up at all.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense bright and vilified by city people.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius especially ambitious young men and women.

God gave me some weird beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

As women we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.

I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

Respecting other people's cultures is well and good but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam what they do to women. It's indefensible.

I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion posited in some touchy-feely quarters that all women are or can be beautiful.

You know when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with some people in Hollywood that are supposedly 'in the know ' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it but I'm not.

You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives because it isn't working for a lot of people particularly for a lot of women.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women Caucasian women they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

Even if there are a lot women in films there are few who are lesbians that people know about.

It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector women at the top - C-level jobs board seats - tops out at fifteen sixteen per cent.

And most people have a woman in their heart most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders the memories of so many people.

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy mostly black women.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds why you are going to do that.

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.