Men may fight the battle, but women wage the war.

I am afraid, my dear niece, that a ‘mere woman’ is something you most certainly are not.

War is a terrible, bloody thing.

Peggy is a sovereign nation. She governs herself and those around her by her own laws.

It seemed ironic to her that women were considered far too meek for the morbidity of war, and yet a child could give their life in a battle they did not even understand.

The porcelain doll residing in her white-pillared dollhouse was a mirage.

Julia Woodhull was many things: a lady of secrets, a patriot’s niece, and a dead man’s daughter. But one thing Julia Woodhull was most certainly not was a fool.

[This philosophy] … is antagonistic to minds perverted and crippled by a superhuman

Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.

The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.

All of a sudden Mindy [Kaling] was writing on The Office and had sold a TV show. When we'd try to write shows, we'd jokingly call the word documents "Hit Show." We just couldn't crack the code.

God, I hope he dies the night before one of his kids get married.

When you are here, you are here. When you are gone, you are gone. It isn't a problem to be gone, so long as you are really here when you're here.

We are only as blind as we want to be.

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

A lot of players know I've been around 13 years and this is my second lockout. I got a lot of respect. I know what's going on both for the league and the union.

Home is where the heart is or where you bury the ones you want to eat later.