She Quotes

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red.

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.

I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."

Kathy Bates is sexy. It's partly because of her talent, but she's got a great face, and a great laugh.

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.

I got married about three years ago again to a wonderful German woman. Her name is Monika and she is beautiful. She is one of the biggest women Zappa fans I have ever met in my life.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.

I like a woman who takes care of herself - it says something about the way she'll care for me.

She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.'

She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.

Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman.