I'm never going to be a woman who doesn't work. At 12 I was emancipated from my parents so I could sign my first record deal. I think I was born working!

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

Is this chicken what I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea.

Am I eating chicken or tuna?

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

laugh a lot. It burns a lot of calories.

I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.

Every tear should live its purpose. Don't ever wipe the reason away.

I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.

I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."

Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.

Don't dream to lead the people while you can't care, even about your neighbours.

A kiss is the sledgehammer that breaks the ice in you.

Danger could be my middle name... But it's John.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

Taste is the next gift to genius.

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.