“We’ve all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.”

I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn’t call me for two weeks? I’m able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

How lucky we are that we love each other so much that we burst into three pieces.

It’s funny when people say, ‘I don’t think Julia likes me.’ Honey, if I don’t like you, you’re going to know about it.

In case I forget to tell you later, I had a really good time tonight.

People don’t want to see me having sex. I’m the queen of the ‘kiss, foreplay, dissolve.’ And then the ‘Whoo! Good morning, tiger.

The only time I’ve ever gone against my instincts, I’ve regretted it. It was only really one time.

Whats nice about my dating life is that I dont have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: Im marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.

Some people are antagonized by the truth.

You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me.

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

I guess when all is said and done, if there is one last commentary on me, I would want it to be said that I participated in my life. I was a full participant.

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

Show me a mall, and I’m happy.

I’m a regular person with an extraordinary job.

Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.

Show me a person who doesn’t like to laugh and I’ll show you a person with a toe tag.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.

Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?’

I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me.

If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.

We went from apartment to apartment by ourselves. One of the best memories I had was when we moved into our first apartment, no bed, no furniture and we just sat in the living room and just hugged each other. We thought we made it.