I understand that if I really need my hair to be nice, now I hire someone to do it, and I understand that putting on a pair of heels really makes a difference.

Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.

Cancer is really hard to go through and it's really hard to watch someone you love go through, and I know because I have been on both sides of the equation.

My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.

A couple of hanging glands have nothing to do with making someone a man.

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

I am definitely as happy as I've ever been. Happier, I would say, than I've ever been.

I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet.

I don't define myself. I'm just a woman in love with another woman.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms.

When we find money in the street, we happily pick it up, even if it’s just a buck, but when we bump into love, we tend to be so picky.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.

You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford.

Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.

I've been saying this for years: There is no longer such a thing as a safe and secure job.