"Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm."

"One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand."

"But one thing that's constant is we've always appreciated fans. They put us on the map and they keep us on the map. I always put myself in their position. If I loved someone and had their posters all over my wall and met them and they were rude it would be very hurtful."

"For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings."

"Wisdom principle 19 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 89."

"After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life."

"Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues."

"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life."