Until as women we all say, No! We are not going to starve ourselves, nothing is going to change. We're our own worse enemies sometimes but I still blame men.

Blood may be thicker than water, but it is still sticky, unpleasant and generally nauseating.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking.

It’s mentally exhausting, feeling bad about something you can do nothing about.

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'

The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off.

This dress exacerbates the genetic betrayal that is my legacy.

I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish. It's going to be bonnets and butter churns.

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

We started out as five people whose lives just happened to cross paths. By the end of the summer we were family

All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer - to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.

The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.

The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.

Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed.

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

The trouble with land is that they're not making it anymore.