"The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs."

“I was a total bad girl growing up.”

Source : "Elizabeth Reaser on Broadway, Breasts and Playing Opposite the Big Boys — Brave and True". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, February 26, 2012.

“To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good, Nor Jor nor glory meet.”

“Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .”

Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1992). “The Astonishing World: Essays”, Houghton Mifflin

“If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible”

“I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.”

“The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.”

“I love being a woman. You can cry. You get to wear pants now. If you're on a boat and it's going to sink, you get to go on the rescue boat first. You get to wear cute clothes. It must be a great thing, or so many men wouldn't be wanting to do it.”

“I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.”