A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent. – Alice Stone Blackwell
No, she is right up there with the best I’ve worked with. I was very impressed with her, I really was. – Albert Finney
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. – Jean de La Fontaine
I want my mom on ‘Scream Queens’. She could play someone who is convinced she’s Princess Leila. That could be her disease, and then as a plot twist, we could find out that she actually is Princess Leila. – Billie Lourd
My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn’t always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have. – Amy Tan
A ship is always referred to as ‘she’ because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. – Chester W. Nimitz
The idea of a young girl who knows exactly what she wants with her life is the most threatening and unappealing thing you can imagine. – Allison Williams
Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whose voice was so delicate it was rumored she endangered it even by speaking, her silences as famous as her performances. – Alexander Chee
Joni Mitchell seems destined to remain in a state of permanent dissatisfaction – always knowing what she would like to do, always more depressed when it’s done. – Jon Landau
I would give anything to sit down with my maternal grandmother and have a cup of tea and play Scrabble. She died 10 years ago. – Julia Stiles
Don’t tell a woman she’s pretty; tell her there’s no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you. – Jules Renard
When I sign on for a project, I’m there to give the director all the material he or she might need to tell their story, and that’s the number one priority. – James Franco
You certainly don’t want to market the president as if he or she were a box of breakfast cereal. – John Quelch
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn’t understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language. – Jacques Derrida
I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there’s so much speculation about her – was she a hermaphrodite? She’s so mythologised, and there are a lot of images of her. – Cate Blanchett
Mrs. Obama has a hug – a sincere and friendly embrace – that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to coast. And when she talks to you, she focuses all her calm attention on your face. – Andre Leon Talley
To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you’re impotent. She can’t wait to disprove it. – Cary Grant
My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, ‘What if she’s ugly? You’re ugly.’ – Beverly Johnson
She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience. – Brian Austin Green
It’s really annoying when you’re trying to get to know someone and she doesn’t pay attention to you because she’s obsessed with her phone. – Cory Monteith
My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be. – Brooke Shields
My mother’s father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things. – Andrae Crouch
One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents’ attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours. – Alex Kingston
The best models in the industry are the ones who feel comfortable on the set. If she doesn’t feel comfortable, the images won’t be beautiful. – Anja Rubik
Every interview I do, it’s basically ‘how did he do it,’ and I owe it all to my representation, and my manager is basically like my mother, she’s so picky. – Jamie Bell
