Friday, 27 March 2015
Today I'm channelling.... Mariah Carey
"There is a light at the end of the tunnel - hopefully it's not a freight train."
Thursday, 26 March 2015
Today I'm channelling... Tennessee Williams
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Today I'm channelling... Aretha Franklin
Tuesday, 24 March 2015
Monday, 23 March 2015
Today I'm channelling... Reese Witherspoon
"I just want my daughter to grow up seeing complex, interesting, nuanced women in film."
Reese Witherspoon, 39 yesterday
Friday, 20 March 2015
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Today I'm channelling... Glenn Close
"I've been on the best dressed list and the worst dressed list - I was prouder of the worst dressed."
Glenn Close, 68 today
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Today I'm channelling... Luc Besson
"It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys."
Luc Besson, 55 today
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
Today I'm channelling... Richard Attenborough
"I believe we need heroes, certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by."
Richard Attenborough
Monday, 16 March 2015
Today I'm channelling... Gertrude Stein
"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
Gertrude Stein (said in 1946...)
Friday, 13 March 2015
Today I'm channelling... Sofia Coppola
Thursday, 12 March 2015
Today I'm channelling... Anne Frank
Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Today I'm channelling... Douglas Adams
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
Douglas Adams, born today 1952
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Today I'm channelling... John Hamm
Monday, 9 March 2015
Today I'm channelling... Madonna
"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want."
Madonna, new album released today
Friday, 6 March 2015
Today I'm channelling... Maya Angelou (again)
"I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side."
Maya Angelou #WOW2015
Thursday, 5 March 2015
Today I'm channelling... Matilda
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Matilda by Quentin Blake |
"All the reading she had done had given her a view of life they had never seen."
Roald Dahl's Matilda #WorldBookDay
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Today I'm channelling... Frances Perkins
"Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees."
Frances Perkins, the first woman appointed to the US cabinet, today in 1933
Tuesday, 3 March 2015
Today I'm channelling... Alexander Graham Bell
Monday, 2 March 2015
Today I'm channelling... Dusty Springfield
"I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if someone handed it to me on a plate."
Dusty Springfield, died today 1999
Sunday, 1 March 2015
Today I'm channelling... Elizabeth Taylor
Thursday, 26 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... Johnny Cash
"It's good to know who hates you. And it's good to be hated by the right people."
Johnny Cash, born today 1932
Wednesday, 25 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... Chelsea Handler
"There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers."
Chelsea Handler, 39 today
Tuesday, 24 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... Steve Jobs
Monday, 23 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... Julianne Moore
"When someone says, 'I'm not political', I feel like what they're saying is, 'I only care about myself. In my bathtub. Me and my bathtub is what I care about."
Julianne Moore, who just bagged her 19th award (the big one) for Still Alice
Friday, 20 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... Cindy Crawford
"I really think - at any age - it's about learning to be comfortable in your own skin. If women would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift... What makes you most attractive is self confidence. That's what people see."
Cindy Crawford, 49 today
Thursday, 19 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... Copernicus
"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
Nicolaus Copernicus, born today 1473
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... Toni Morrison
"Freeing yourelf was one thing. Claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
Toni Morrison, born today 1931
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... Iris Apfel
Monday, 16 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... Sarah Silverman
"It fills me with a weird rage to wear shoes that make me not able to walk easily or run if I had to."
Sarah Silverman
Friday, 13 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... Henry Rollins
Thursday, 12 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... Judy Blume
"Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need."
Judy Blume, 77 today
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... Jennifer Aniston
"I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God, never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass."
Jennifer Aniston, 46 today
Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... Laura Ingalls Wilder
Monday, 9 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... Alice Walker
Friday, 6 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... Eddie Izzard
Thursday, 5 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... William S Burroughs
"You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal."
William S Burroughs, born today 1914
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... Betty Friedan
"The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, is by creative work of her own."
Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique, born today 1921
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... Amal Alamuddin
"I'm wearing Ede & Ravenscroft."
Amal Alamuddin, 37 today, on being asked - yet again - who designed her outfit.
Monday, 2 February 2015
Today I'm channelling... Ayn Rand
"The question isn't, who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
Ayn Rand, born today 1905
Friday, 30 January 2015
Today I'm channelling... Oprah
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Beyoncé's birthday message to Oprah on Instagram |
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
Oprah, 61 yesterday
Thursday, 29 January 2015
Today I'm channelling... Robert Frost
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Today I'm channelling... Colette
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Today I'm channelling... Anne Frank
"How wonderful is it that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
Anne Frank, to mark Holocaust memorial day 2015
Monday, 26 January 2015
Today I'm channelling... Virginia Woolf
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painting by Roger Fry, circa 1917 |
"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."
Virginia Woolf, born 25 January 1882
Friday, 23 January 2015
Today I'm channelling... Katharine Hepburn
"I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear."
Katharine Hepburn
Thursday, 22 January 2015
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Today I'm channelling... Sarah Silverman
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
Today I'm channelling... Anne Kirkbride
Monday, 19 January 2015
Today I'm channelling... Dolly Parton
"If anyone tells you your hair is too big, get rid of them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life."
Dolly Parton, 69 today
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