She Quotes

I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter; she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.

I love Kathy Griffin, I think she's brilliant, but for me, there is a line when I go OK, that's too much.

My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.

We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.

My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.

She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.

In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.

The funny thing is that people see one film like 'Racing Stripes' or 'Ice Princess' and all of a sudden, slip me into this category of 'that's what she's always involved in.'

Never once does 'Snow White' herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.

I think it's a little irresponsible for women who choose surgery to then say they can portray the average woman on the street, because if the average woman can't afford those treatments, then she's going to say, 'I'm 53 and I don't look like that,' and start thinking she's ugly or inadequate.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.