You must never be afraid in New York City, because then you will call bad stuff to you and you will not like it there.

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.

It's all very well to say beauty is under the skin, or in the eye of the beholder, but no-one would say no to being prettier if they had the chance, so it is all rot.

Life is a very narrow bridge between two eternities. Be not afraid.Rabbi Nachman of Braslav

Count your blessings, not your misfortunes, for your blessings will be the light of hope, in the dark of hopelessness.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.

Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and how it turned out.