If you've chosen someone to be in your bridal party, she should be a good enough friend that she does not want to upstage you.

I am a control freak.

I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time.

Bridesmaids are never going to upstage the bride.

I love vintage and prints.

I'm actually an incredibly disorganized, messy person.

Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I've seen, or a book I am reading.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

I look much more civilized than I actually am.

I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.

Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta.

Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.

When somebody shows up and they believe in you, it makes all the difference.

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot

We are letting the extractive energy industries turn the world inside out.

A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.

She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.

America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.

Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different

You’ll have your own superhero club before you know it.