Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.

The motion picture is the people's Art.

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

A great many of us have confused change with progress.

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go with it, and you will actually go through it, and it's a lot less stressful.

My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky.

I think health-wise, pro-wrestling is probably ten times worse for you than MMA.

Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.

We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'

Time is on the side of all things good.

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

I was nervous about writing Slow Regard.

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.