Today I'm channelling.... Mariah Carey

"There is a light at the end of the tunnel - hopefully it's not a freight train."
Mariah Carey, 45 today

Today I'm channelling... Tennessee Williams

"After a glass or two of wine, I'm inclined to extravagance."
Tennessee Williams, born today 1911

Today I'm channelling... Aretha Franklin

"I'm a big woman, I need big hair."
Aretha Franklin 73 today

Today I'm channelling... Thomas Jefferson

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
Thomas Jefferson

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

Today I'm channelling... Aldous Huxley

"Stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability."
Aldous Huxley

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

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

Today I'm channelling... Richard Attenborough

"I believe we need heroes, certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by."
Richard Attenborough

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...)

Today I'm channelling... Sofia Coppola

"I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity."
Sofia Coppola

Today I'm channelling... Anne Frank

"No-one ever became poor by giving."
Anne Frank, died today 1945

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

Today I'm channelling... John Hamm

"I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago."
John Hamm, 44 today

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

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

Today I'm channelling... Matilda

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

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

Today I'm channelling... Alexander Graham Bell

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
Alexander Graham Bell, born today 1847

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

Today I'm channelling... Elizabeth Taylor

"Success is a great deoderant."
Elizabeth Taylor, born today 1932