She Quotes

They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.

I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.

My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.

A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

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.