A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the 'Roseanne' show as their starting place, and I'm really proud of that.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

I call myself a 'domestic goddess.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.

It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

I can go from blokey to girlie in 15 minutes and then I'm out the door. But that's the fastest I can do it. Becoming a woman takes work.

The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.

Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it.

I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.

The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.