Quotes from Shakira

Seeing me in love is a constant state: there are no questions, as the answer is simply there.

Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.

When you feel complete, you don't need to get married, and you don't think about it.

I wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter.

You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.

I'm a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are - there's no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don't see!

Walking gets too boring when you learn how to fly.

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

Nationalism is cured by traveling.

The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to. It is as cut-and dried as that. It doesn't matter if you are a woman or not; in this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.

You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice

The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.

Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term.

You want to be skinny and have a good body? You have to work out every day and say no to certain foods.

We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.

Both the IDB and Fundacion ALAS believe that the future of prosperity and equality that we hope for has to start today with higher investment and higher quality in Early Childhood Development programs throughout the region.

I can't wait for the time when curves and a little belly fat will be sexy again!

I just don't find marriage a necessary step in a couple's life.

I did not want to spend the rest of my life not being able to ride in a nice car.

Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry.

It's not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It's not easy if those people aren't as perfectionistic as I am.