“I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house…”

“Not all his men may sever this,
 It yields to friends', not monarchs', calls;
My whinstone house my castle is—
 I have my own four walls.”

“The woman must feel secure in being a woman in the first place, since the woman is the blueprint and the foundation of the house.”

“In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Madagascar. She said”

“I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush.”

“What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.”

“From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me.”

“I was my own woman.
The next step was to find the proper sort of man.”

“People ask me what the "T" stands for in my name. If you're a man, the "T" stands for tough. If you're a woman or child, it stands for tender!”

“I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind…”