Her Quotes

There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

A woman's health is her capital.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

No, she is right up there with the best I've worked with. I was very impressed with her, I really was.

I'm just an all-around happy girl who loves everything about her life.

Well, one of the things I did was recreate her home in my home.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.

There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.

There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.

Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment.