Madonna Ciccone

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly; it depends largely on how any one brain pathway is used.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.