Over six decades of stardom, Cher has won the hearts of fans around the globe for her songs, movies and jaw-dropping fashion sense.
But perhaps her most unforgettable creation is her public persona.
The iconic star perpetually commands attention and is always ready with a mischievous quip or an inspiring piece of advice.
In recent years she has become a beloved presence on X, formerly Twitter, where she often posts emoji-strewn rants to the delight of her followers.
Now, at the age of 78, the Believe hitmaker has enclosed her wit and wisdom between hard covers for the first half of her two-part memoir.
Following the release of the first volume of her memoir on November 19, DailyMail.com looks back on some of the Oscar-winner’s most iconic quotes….
Following the release of the first part of her memoir on November 19, DailyMail.com remembers Cher’s most iconic quotes; pictured October 19 as she’s inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio
On women’s empowerment
‘My mom said to me: “You know, sweetheart, one day you should settle down and marry a rich man.” And I said: “Mom, I am a rich man.”‘
‘Yes, it’s a man’s world, but that’s all right because they’re making a total mess of it. We’re chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it’s a difficult task, but it’s not.’
‘Women have to harness their power — its absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first no. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.’
‘Women are the real architects of society.’
On love
‘A girl can wait for the right man to come along — but in the meantime, that doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.
‘If I hadn’t met younger men in my life, I would have never had a date, because older men just didn’t like me all that much.’
‘If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.’
‘I adore dessert, I love men. I think men are the coolest. But you don’t really need them to live.’
‘Old boyfriends make good friends.’
‘The trouble with some women, they get all excited about nothing – and then they marry him.’
Cher, pictured in 1983, once recalled that her mother told her: ‘You know, sweetheart, one day you should settle down and marry a rich man,’ and she retorted: ‘Mom, I am a rich man’
‘All of us invent ourselves,’ said Cher, pictured in 1978 in a costume created by her longtime collaborator Bob Mackie: ‘Some of us just have more imagination than others’
‘If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life,’ said Cher, pictured with her first husband Sonny Bono in 1977
”If I hadn’t met younger men in my life, I would have never had a date, because older men just didn’t like me all that much,’ said Cher, pictured with her beau Alexander Edwards, 38, in 2022
Cher has a longtime fondness for younger men, such as Rob ‘Bagel Boy’ Camilletti, whom she took up with in the 1980s when she was 40 and he 22
On her career
‘I feel like a bumper car. If I hit a wall, I’m backing up and going in another direction. And I’ve hit plenty of f***ing walls in my career. But I’m not stopping. I think maybe that’s my best quality: I just don’t stop.’
‘It was easier getting divorced from two men than it was getting into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.’
‘I don’t think of myself as a singer, I don’t have that kind of confidence. I want to put on a show. I want to dazzle people. For me, everything goes through my eyes first. Even when I did The Star Spangled Banner, I was wondering: What should I wear?’
‘I’ve spent a lifetime with people either loving me or hating me. And I mean, you want to be loved, but finally it’s like, f*** it.’
‘All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.’
On Madonna
‘She’s unbelievably creative because she’s not unbelievably talented, she’s not beautiful but she’s rude.’
‘It seems to me when you reach the kind of acclaim that she’s reached, and you can do whatever you want to do, you should be a little bit more magnanimous and a little bit less of a c***.’
‘I never hated her, I just thought she was a b****. Actually I quite respect her.’
‘I think she’s very creative and I think that she does a lot with the talent that she has.’
‘I’ve spent a lifetime with people either loving me or hating me,’ said Cher, pictured at the 1978 Oscars: ‘And I mean, you want to be loved, but finally it’s like, f*** it.’
Cher is pictured wearing Bob Mackie at the 1988 Oscars, where she won best actress for her performance in the romantic comedy Moonstruck opposite Nicolas Cage
‘I never hated her, I just thought she was a b****,’ Cher once remarked of Madonna, whom she is pictured with at the Women’s March in Washington, DC in 2017
Cher released The Memoir: Part One (pictured) on November 19, and a second volume is expected in 2025
On growing older
‘I hate it. What, I’m going to say I like it? No, I don’t. Any woman who is honest will say it’s not as much fun.’
‘But you know, my mom has this saying – and I’m not sure I agree with her – but she said: “If you don’t pay attention to age, then it won’t pay attention to you.” And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don’t buy it.’
‘Some guy said to me: “Don’t you think you’re too old to sing rock ‘n’ roll?” I said: “You’d better check with Mick Jagger.”‘
‘At some point, you have to give up your career – unless you’re Tony Bennett or Betty White.’
‘I’d do anything to be 70 again.’
