I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it's hard for me not to. I guess I've been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

We as authors sign a pact with our readers they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised.

For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.

Two thirds of help is to give courage.

You always have good shows and bad shows. People want a certain amount of each. It's just widening the market a little bit. The involvement of people at home is just broadening things.

I see myself as an entertainer.

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

I think I'd want to have an affair with a Montgomery but marry a Taggert.

Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.