I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

I call myself a 'domestic goddess.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.

I love you, and I know you love me too.I’m just not sure that’s enough anymore.Don’t we both deserve more than this struggle?

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.

You know," Kirk said finally, breaking the silence. "I see it. He is pretty hot.

When I do something, I like it when it's perfect. I'm kind of hard on myself that way.

I spent quite a lot of time pissing off my friends because I could get girls with a British accent, despite the fact that I was tubby and, like, not very cool.

When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing.

And sometimes I think there isn’t anything to us but our mistakes.

It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"