There are certain women who have changed my life. Mother Theresa, Princess Diana and Anita Roddick. She was a woman who showed others what could be achieved in a man's world and I send my condolences to her family and friends on this sad occasion. As a pioneeing business woman she impressed me, but her social, animal and environmental awareness, before its 'time', is what touched me so deeply and has she has always been a woman that has influenced the way I live my life. I hope that the country will find a lasting way to pay tribute to her important life so that we do not forget the important legacy she has left.

Juliet Lewin, Stanmore, England

A Dame that could change the women how they do business. We will miss her. She was everywhere in the entrepreneurships. I followed her books and articles and try to speak her way to the lady forum in Tanzania. I will personally miss her.

Firozali A.Mulla MBA PhD, Dar-Es-Salaam , Tanzania

I met her some years ago, and she looked so tall inspite her small size. I am sure it was her incredible heart shinning through her. For me knowing that she was around was very inspiring.

Mother Earth will surely miss her !!

Laura Scaro, Salta, Argentina

I met Anita when she visited Brazil to launch her `Business as Unusual` book and feel I was blessed to have had that opportunity. This is an incredible loss to humankind and I can only hope we can pay tribute to her life and work by cultivating her values and principles: ethics in business, for one. Live long, Anita, at least in our hearts.

Patrícai Melo, São Paulo, Brazil

Anita Roddick is one of a kind. One of a kind. The rest of businesses all over the world continue their ways to wreck havoc on living things and the environment. I am not pessimistic to say that companies only care about making profits - that's their only raison d'etre. Everything else is just PR. It will always be. Economic might always supercede ecological right. Always.

SK LIN, Hongkong,

I cant believe she has died. She was such a lovely lady. I met her when I worked in Arundel, she was a regular customer to Howards Carvery where I worked. I loved her products and everything she believed in. She was so right when she said you must live life to the full, you don't know what is around the corner. She will be greatly missed.

Hilary Gribble, Worthing, England

I worked for Body Shop in Bath from 1985 to 1997 and met Anita on numerous occasions, along with Sam and occasionally Gordon.
She will be greatly missed by all those whose hearts she has touched. A great, caring and fun lady. She was a role model and an inspiration to many.
My thoughts and prayers are with all the family
All my love

Helen Harris, BATH, ENGLAND

God Bless the great women of the Body Shop. Rest in Peace. Amen.

NAVJOT SINGH, West Dulwich, LONDON

I have never met Dame Anita Roddick, and now I never will, and for that I am sad. I still cling to her beliefs that business has the power to do good, and I've always felt she was spot on - even when I completely disagreed with her, you couldn't knock her chutzpah.

It's funny, I've just handed in my notice - as the director of a big corporate business. Now my wife and I can go and do something we believe in that really helps people.

I along with thousands of other wannabe Anitas, are going to try and make good on her promise. Whether I personally succeed or fail, I know that many will make it work, and that to a greater or lesser externt, big businesses will do the same.

She's changed the world, a life lived to the fullest.

Now, finally, after a life lived with feverish energym she can chill out.

Thanks for everything

Mark, London, London