“There is no harm in asking, only in letting an opportunity slip by without trying.”

“Real change requires you to change your behavior-not just your attitude.”

“What’s writing anyway, but us ghosts in here singing?”

“Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.”

“A man is a beautiful thing, a very beautiful thing. But some men forget this. And sometimes they try to keep other men captive. They buy and sell people, as if human beings are no more than cattle. But only a fool believes he can really own another man, and only a fool will try. Mr. Finley may own my body, but I have a heart and I have a mind, and he can never own these. Inside of me, I'm too powerful to be owned by anyone. Inside, I am like the sun.”

“Not all deviance is negative; without it, we'd never change the world.”

“You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.”