She Quotes

When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.

My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point.

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

She has turned the British bulldog into a Reagan poodle.

I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

People think, 'She's a model. She must have such an attitude. She must be so stuck up.' But I'm normal. I cry. I'm not rich. I drive a 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity.

It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all.

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.

When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.

Whoopi and I have been friends ever since she claimed she couldn't sing on the set of Sister Act.

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.

I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.

Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury.

My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.