Her Quotes

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in.

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

The mother is the one who is going to help you in the long run! You must make her your friend. It matters what she thinks.

When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.

Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!

This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

If you start to catalog Hillary Clinton's positions between now and 2008, we're going to have a lot of conversations because there are a lot of places for her to go.

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go.

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.

There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Angelina is my daughter and I am always wishing her the best.

The cast called her Lucy, but everyone else called her Mrs. Ball. She was honest with people. If she liked you, you knew it. If she didn't, you knew it, also.

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.