A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

From the beginning, Madam C. J. Walker's message was as much about hair and beauty as it was about empowering other women. She knew that confidence and self-assurance are key ingredients to success, and that true beauty comes from within.

A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

Inner confidence is what makes us successful.

A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

Women of African descent, since the beginning of time, have altered their hair, decorated it and used it to designate status.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

I don't do dinner parties. I have people come to share the food I've cooked for the family.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

There's no pleasing the British, or winning their favor. They simply hate politicians. All politicians. Hatred goes with politicians like mint sauce with lamb. It's as old as Parliaments.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

I'm frightened of my innate vanity. I mean: the suits lined with scarves? Even I know the warning signs. I could quite easily end up in a tiny Playboy mansion, all on my own.

A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

A. E. van Vogt
A. E. van Vogt

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

A. J. Jacobs
A. J. Jacobs

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.