"I'm interested in women's health because I'm..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.”

“Every journey begins with a single step.”

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

“A smart girl leaves before she is left.”

“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”

“Dare to be different. Be a pioneer. Be a leader. Be the kind of woman who in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward the challenge.”

“Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.”

“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.”

“If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.”