Pastoral Resources

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.

It's a surer way to a woman's heart to be interested in what she's thinking than what she's wearing or not wearing.

I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.

I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.

What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it.

Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes'.