unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.

[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.

Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.

I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I'm from.

I stabbed you. With a massive sword. You caught on fire." His lips twitched, almost imperceptibly. "Okay, so maybe our problems aren't like other couples.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

No, Mom. I said fine." "It's just your tone." Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.

I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.

A girl should never disguise the fact that she's a girl. It's a lot easier to convince a man that you're a fascinating female if you look the part.

When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.

Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation.