"I believe that woman is the equal of man - if she is. That woman is no better than man - unless she is."

“Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.”

Source : "Hong Kong Business Tycoon Stanley Ho TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2004.

“Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.”

“Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.”

“I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.”

“People always assume that things are just handed to me, but I've had to prove myself, every inch of the way.”

“I drank some coffee and my outlook improved immensely. I was ready to write some poems and, I don’t know, get drunk, run around, take my shirt off and get kicked out of someplace. You know, live a little.”

Source : Michelle Tea (2010). “Valencia”, p.41, Hachette UK

“The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.”

“Nothing makes me happier than working with real people in the real world.”