Anita Roddick

"We want to demonstrate alternative ways of doing business."

"If you have skin, you are a beauty expert."

"The future is female."

"Money should never be a reason not to do the right thing."

"I think business is the most powerful force for change in the world."

"Love is more important than money."

"There is no such thing as a perfect body - perfect is a perception."

"I only connect with people, creatures, places, when there is love."

"Forget about being perfect. Be real instead."

"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."

"Our responsibility is to love, to care for one another."

"We are not here to compete with each other. We are here to complement each other."

"I like to define feminism as a social movement that challenges patriarchal systems."

"The minute you try to talk business to America as anything other than perfectly earnest, it stops listening."

"You have to be very, very willing to make mistakes."

"I use shamanism, I use women, I use feminism, I use activism - I use it all."

"Just because you are a woman, doesn't mean you are less than anyone."

"We are all dying, from the moment we are born. Celebrate life while you have it."

"There's only one freedom that really matters - the freedom to do what you believe."

"I believe that you can't be brave and not be afraid."

"We need to care about the world we will leave to our children."

"Life is not a dress rehearsal."

"The consumer is the best teacher you can have."

"I feel like I'm at the crossroads, committed to finding a new kind of moral space - a space for spiritual and material richness."

"You are what your deepest driving conviction is."

"Love is the most powerful force of change."

"Never think small. Always think big."

"I would rather my company fail than do something that is morally wrong."

"Everybody has the power to do good. Everybody."

"My life is my statement."