I think it's important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man.
I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.
Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid. ’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear. ’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.
Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.
Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.
I wish that author [ E. L. James] all the success in the world. It's just not for me.
I consider being female such a unique gift, such a sacred joy, in ways that run so deep I can't articulate them. It's a special kind of privilege to be born into the body you wanted, to embrace the essence of your gender even as you recognize what you are up against. Even as you seek to redefine it.
When you write an album and you're writing about relationships, the stuff that I've been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it's that one percent that always inspires you to write a song.
Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity. . . Convert your thoughts into prayer. As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer. The difference is not that prayer is thinking about other things, but that prayer is thinking in dialogue,. . . a conversation with God.
Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.