I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don't eat much.

As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'

I can't admit things; that's why I can't go to funerals and stuff like that. I find it very, very difficult to deal with that kind of reality. I shut myself off totally because it affects me so badly.

I've had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works. You do it once a year - who cares?

I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

I think America is a hard nut to crack. But once you get a toehold, it's a great place for an entrepreneur because people are so enthusiastic, and you have the most enthusiastic audiences in world.

Most things in music go full circle eventually.

I was 12 years old when I first realized that food could be hot. That's why I turned out the way I am.

I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don't have time for them. I can't make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.

I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years.

I'm obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.

If I went to a psychiatrist, it would be a long session. I've always thought that I do have a number of issues that probably need dealing with, because I am quite odd in some ways.

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.

She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?

...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.