So it is officially the most depressing day of the year - Blue Monday. You're still feeling bloated after Christmas, it's still a long way until pay day, it's chillingly cold outside and January really does seem to be the season for break-ups. So we've gone to 11 of our favourite famous women for their words of wisdom and cheer.
Let Dolly, Marilyn and Katharine help get you through today and take a look out your office window because it's really sunny out.
Katharine Hepburn:
"The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated."
Marilyn Monroe:
"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."
Jane Birkin:
"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust."
Lauren Bacall:
"I am not a has-been. I am a will be."
Dolly Parton:
"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."
Patti Smith:
"In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth."
Audrey Hepburn:
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."
Dorothy Parker:
"All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends."
Joan Dideon:
"Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control."
Elizabeth Taylor:
"Pour yourself a drink; put on some lipstick and pull yourself together."
Janis Joplin:
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow, it's all the same day."
