As the mother of two girls, it's important to me that they see themselves too-in books, films, and on runways. It's important to me that they see themselves as CEOs, as bosses, and that they know they can write the script for their own lives-that they can speak their minds and they have no ceiling.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.