The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.

There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.

Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?

I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.

Love always was and always will be the only real answer. Why else do you think we have been taught so much hate?

Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time.

The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right?" -Sookie Stackhouse

The Jews didn't like him because he threatened their religion. He was saying things that didn't go with the order.

In short, if your body or mind Or your soul or your purse come to grief, You need only get drunk, and you'll find Complete and immediate relief.

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

A clere conscience is a sure carde.

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

Me and my friends get together all the time for girls night, or watch rock of love on the couch. I end up going out to a lot of shows, and surfing with my folks is always high on the priority list.