I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.

I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.

I've lived a fast-paced life, but I had the best childhood. I didn't miss out on anything by having my daughter at a young age.

I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.

I absolutely love being a mother. It's been a blessing. It's fun and it's hard, but it's absolutely amazing.

I come from a big family, so I'd like to have a big family.

Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.

the siren song/called silence

I’m of the camp that if an angel tells you one thing, and a man in ruby slippers tells you another, you go with the angel.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

My buddies tell me that I should have waited. They say I'm missing a whole world of fun. But I am happy and I sing with pride. I like the Christian life.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.