When they say laughter is healing, it absolutely is the truth.

"Married with Children" was racy, it was sexist, it was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

I was very rebellious.

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell.

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

Never let anything be a setback in your life, not even your thoughts, words nor actions.

The best the world has to offer comes from the best you have to give to others.

He's an irrelevant person. Learn to spot irrelevant people. Don't expect someone who doesn't know who they are to care who you are.

YOU YOU YOUyour eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edgesa book of myths in which i do not appear.

No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.

Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.

Do I really want to spend my whole life trying not to die by mistake?

Today you can't go by the titles of the shows to know what the content of the show may be.

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.