"We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections."

“But I have to go. Thank you, Kylie Galen. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for teaching me to think beyond myself. Thank you for everything.”

“Freedom is the power to choose our own chains”

“Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.”

“I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.”

“Someone said to me that we have to encourage more young women to want top-level editing jobs. I think that will happen naturally as we have more role models, more examples of boss ladies who aren't sad and cruel and overworked and undersexed like in DevilWearsPrada, but who are straight-up owning it and notable not for their gender but for their editorial savvy.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future.”

Source : Source: wwd.com

“The media can be an instrument of change. It can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or it can awaken people and change minds. It depends on who's piloting the plane.”

Source : "Miss Representation: An Interview with Writer & Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

“I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.”