O.v Grace Quotes

Survival is my primary instinct...it's out of my control. It's stronger than me. It's an outside force, a voice that says 'do this for your life or it will devour you.'

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

I think I got left behind somewhere, because, you know, I'm still a romantic

I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

I love getting told no 'cause then I fight even more.

I do isometrics in church so while I'm doing my soul some good, I'm doing my body some good, too.

My nerves could use a drink.

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid

I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it.

At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends.

It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.

I don't know what I'm going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.

Anger and anger can not solve any problem.

Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead did as much for mankind as any president.

I am not strict vegan, because I'm a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I'll have it.

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.

I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer than our bodies.

I think the best roles are in dark movies. It's roles that aren't you. It's fun playing someone that's not me. If I'm playing me all the time, then it's not acting. It's just being yourself.

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.

I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

I'm an average, everyday girl...

Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.

Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.

The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

I was raised to think cursing makes you look unintelligent.

I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.

I have just as much woman in me as I have man. It's just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.

This is one night I wish I smoked and drank.

It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.

Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.

What time is it on the clock of the world?

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

I'm enormously less interested in whom you sleep with than I am in with whom you're prepared to die.

I said I'd be honest, I never said I'd be consistant.

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

I don't like yelling and fighting, and I can't quarrel.

I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again.

Sisterhood is powerful. It kills. Mostly sisters.