When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she’d get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was ‘C’mon, she’s too smart for that.’ – J. Michael Straczynski
In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down. – Jesse Jackson
Asked at the hearing why she hadn’t pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn’t know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn’t her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is. – Howard Fineman
Now, it’s true I married my wife for her looks… but not the ones she’s been givin’ me lately. – Jeff Foxworthy
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. – James Whistler
People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually. – James Earl Jones
My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, ‘Shut up!’ to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn’t around. – John Piper
If you’ve ever talked to a special agent that you know well, and you ask he or she about a dangerous encounter they were involved in, they’ll almost always give you the same answer: ‘Yeah, I did it, but I was scared to heck the whole time.’ – James Comey
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. – Jane Austen
Hillary Clinton was asked if she wiped the disc she was using for her email; she said, ‘Do you mean with a damp cloth?’ This, to me, is frightening. – John McAfee
My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor. – J. K. Simmons
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him… My mother is British, but she’s of French extraction. – Joan Collins
I’ve never been keen on open adoption. It doesn’t seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else. – Joan Didion
If a hamster has too many babies she knows she cannot carry, she not only abandons them, but she eats them. That means she doesn’t have to go out and hunt for food for herself. – Isabella Rossellini
I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn’t immediately affect her. – John Cleese
If a woman is into me, it usually takes me awhile to figure that out. She has to hit me over the head with it. – Isaiah Mustafa
My mom grew up in the Soviet Bloc, and she was a Tiger Mom. We didn’t get away with much. – Ivanka Trump
In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin’s artistry is that she always leaves her mark – first, on the music, then on us. – Jon Landau
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. – Jane Austen
Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared. – John Mellencamp
French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is. – Alan Furst
What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells? – Juliana Hatfield
When cellphones came out, my girlfriend refused to get one for five years, because she thought it would turn her into somebody who couldn’t connect with other people – and, of course, she got a cellphone. – Jesse Eisenberg