It took the death of someone I love in order for me to learn how to live. (Stephanie Adams speaks about the death of her Aunt Joyce, July 24, 2003)

Live your life today because there is no guarantee of tomorrow. Live your life tomorrow without any regrets for today. If I had a chance to do it all again, I would have done it all the same way…I have no regrets… (Stephanie Adams speech for Gay Pride on NY1 News)

You can love me or hate me, but either way, I do not care. Success put me where I am today and the love as well as jealousy from others only keeps me there. (Stephanie Adams official MySpace page)

Posing in Playboy is every bad girl's dream and every good girl's fantasy. (Stephanie Adams Interview regarding Playboy)

If you try to get control over it, it will take control over you. If you try to make it work, it will make you work even harder for it. If you no longer believe in it, you will no longer believe that you deserve it. Here’s to love…and the madness that comes along with it… (Stephanie Adams excerpt from her book entitled 'Empress')

I did not get to where I am in life by being weak and allowing others, who are weak, try and 'break' me. These men are in fact powerless cowards hiding behind an honorable badge and I will not stop until justice has been served... (Stephanie Adams speaks about her NYPD incident, May 25, 2006)