“Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.”

“Of capital importance is to have a good diet and exercise a lot.”

“Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up your self-confidence and gives you more courage.”

“When I create an image that helps someone - even just myself - find peace, then I've attained my goal.”

“It's important to maintain an attractive smile as you age. A lighter, less beige, more white tooth color is key, but no Chiclets.”

“I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country.”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

“Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.”

“I know that the whole pointthe only pointis tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go.”

“No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.”

“With breast cancer, it's all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do.”