Jada Pinkett Smith

"Its more of a life partnership… I dont own him. He doesnt own me. He has to be his own person first, and vice versa… Love is freedom."

"For every woman its important that we recognize that we have the right to figure out what works for us personally. We dont have to do what everyone else is doing. If we are good, our family is going to be good."

"When youve walked through the darkness of your own heart and mind ... there is no shadow you fear."

"I really thought happiness had a lot to do with pleasure, and I realized that happiness is about peace."

"If you really want to know, Im thankful for the Hollywood scrutiny, that thats my problem. There are mothers out there losing their sons, their husbands, their daughters. Im blessed. So scrutinize me. Ill take that any day over what the majority of my people are dealing with on a daily basis. I dare not complain."

"A man can CHOOSE to belong to someone. And if he does...he is considered noble. A woman is told she MUST belong to someone or...she is not worthy."

"We mere mortal women are worthy simply because we exist!,"

"I think everybodys life is their own work of art and then we have many pieces within it. I have a lot of ideas around marriage and I think it can be one of the most powerful dynamics."

"so thats what Im really playing with right now. And I love the juxtaposition of going from beauty to rough, the balance of both."

"You cannot make a cake with all sugar. In one lifetime, weve lived about 20...If I had to say what kind of art piece our union is, I would say it is a tapestry."

"Having the courage to be with all that we are, even in the face of the disappointment and the anger and resentment that comes with the breaking of the romantic idea around the feminine," she explained, "part of the freedom and part of the empowerment of women is being able to withstand that."

"You gotta trust who youre with, and at the end of the day, Im not here to be anybodys watcher. Im not his watcher. Hes a grown man. I trust that the man that Will is is a man of integrity. HEs got all the freedom in the world, and as long as Will can look at himself in the mirror and be OK, Im good."