I didn't know that being in a relationship meant you had to be nice. I thought it meant you had to hack away at the other person until they were beaten down and then were too afraid to leave.

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.

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.

Truth wears a crown of thorns

Many stroke survivors look back on their attack as a stroke of luck. Of course, by luck they mean horrible paralysis.

I am neither spontaneous nor ready for anything.

Everyone has limits. Not everyone accepts them.

I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

I don't like to have really any expectations for myself.

Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.

I love ballet and I love dancing...... It's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline - It's really hard, but much more fun.

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.