“There are lots of things that I’d like to be, and nice just doesn’t seem good enough.”

I’m going to have wrinkles really soon.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

Don’t buy into the idea that women aren’t strong enough to do anything they want on their own.

You’ve probably noticed already that I’m dressed like a grown-up… I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.

Everyone’s got to have a dream. It’s not reaching your dream that counts. It’s going toward them.

Yes, it’s a man’s world, but that’s all right because they’re making a total mess of it. We’re chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it’s a difficult task, but it’s not.

It doesn’t always turn out. It’s not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes against the grain of the larger group.

Credibility is to be good. You must be good. That’s all I ever wanted – to be good at what I did.

I can trust my friends… these people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

My mother once said “If you don’t pay attention to age, then it won’t pay attention to you.” And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don’t buy it.

I am the girl who everyone said was never going anywhere. I guess I shocked a few people.

You can’t just sit around and watch life pass you by. You have to keep dreaming. Sonny taught me that, and I intend to do him proud.

I’ve been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, ‘Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!’

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

I’ve had so many rebirths, I should come with my own midwife by now.

The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing.

I’m very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I’ve never really considered myself a writer.

I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years.

Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.

You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them, but still move on without them.

When a man takes time to consider whether he will do a good or civil action, be assured he will never do it. The baser feelings, the calculations of interest and timidity, always prevail.

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.

It’s not like I’m trying not to be worse! I’m trying to be gooder!