"Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim."

“I've got a swimming pool and I pretend to be like a mermaid, like in the middle of the night. It kind of de-stresses me.”

“As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.”

“And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.”

“I know I'm still young and there's a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that's wrong, that I'm not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I'll always just be alone.”

“As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.”

“With great effort comes great gratification.”

Source : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.241, Storey Publishing

“Dressing is a pleasure; clothes are not a joke.”

“Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.”

Source : Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt