"Women should be tough, tender, laugh as..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.”

“When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.”

“Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.”

“Love's all in all to women.”

“Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.”

“How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.”

“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”

“If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!”

“The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.”