Quotes from Demi Moore

While you're pregnant you're made to feel not beautiful or sexually viable. You're either sexy, or you're a mother. I didn't want to have to choose, so I challenged that.

You have to acknowledge a problem exists before you can actually go about finding a solution.

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.

I'm certainly not the first person to be in a relationship with a younger man, but somehow I was plucked out as a bit of a poster girl.

Real men don't buy girls-they protect them. We're recruiting real men who have the courage to stand up against this issue.

Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for clothes, but it's not what you want in real life. Why do we have to keep looking at ourselves and measuring?

The new Ann Taylor is for modern women who want to take on the world in style.

Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.

I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts.

I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process.

Work has enhanced and certainly supported my feelings toward myself, because it's been a reflection of goals I've set. But if you're not happy with yourself on the inside, then what does it matter?

I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths.

The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive.

I don't know if I personally instill a fear in people, but I think that there are things that I have been involved in that perhaps stir up their own personal fears.

Time is an amazing equalizer. I think if you stay true to yourself and keep moving forward, things come around.

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. There's still a negative attitude in our society towards women who use a strength that's inherent - their femininity - in any way that might be considered seductive.

Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture.