Her Quotes

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true.

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.

It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.

I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.

What was it about Carolyn that made her so cautious about revealing herself?

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.

Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's smart.

That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.

The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.