“ 'Black girl magic' means, to me, just getting out there and doing it every day and not letting anything get you down. Nina Shaw
“ Essence has been home for so many of us for so many years. I always say that Essence was the first place that I felt I was a pretty black girl. Nina Shaw
“ So many people don't have control over their destiny in a way that I do, don't own their own businesses, don't have their own clients. I owe it to them to speak freely. Nina Shaw
“ I'm incredibly tenacious, but I also try so hard in my work to really listen to people and address their point of view. In the end, I always remember who I'm an advocate for. Nina Shaw
“ I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull. Oprah Winfrey Media Proprietor
“ Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children. August Strindberg Playwright
“ In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude. Cyril Connolly Critic
“ One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed. Bernard Baruch Financier
“ If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself. Kris Kristofferson Singer-Songwriter