C. Elizabeth Quotes

If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a "Men in Entertainment" issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.

People want to put women in one box, and Im interested in how women can be everything at once.

I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.

I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Valentine's Day is, maybe it's a day to stay home and cry.

But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights.

Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.

I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening.

... a woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation.

A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.

Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure.

... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy.

Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.

Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events.

You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman.

It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable.

Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law of mechanics they were raised?

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.

It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.

People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.

When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

Motivation is the power behind plot.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

I used to not back down from a challenge.

I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his light shine on us all.

All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.

Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.

Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of all, change.

Somewhere deep down in us is stored the secret, and when we are digging in the wrong place, we know it. The secret wants to be discovered and will not let us go in peace a way that is not ours.

How few women have any history after the age of thirty!

Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.

Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.

We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.

White wing'd angels meet the child On the vestibule of life.

T is the summer prime, when the noiseless air in perfumed chalice lies.

The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky.

When I'm wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they're sitting in pools of blood.

It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.

Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.

You want everyone to succeed in your family.

I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.

I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they're wearing.

I really actually enjoy auditioning.

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.