Her Quotes

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y'all want for lunch, and as we're eating lunch, what do y'all want for dinner? It's always about the next meal.

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.

They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.

I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.

I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.