"Poetry gave me the life I live: many of the people I love, the places I've traveled, the things I've learned about myself, the job I hold. And I can't count the times I've been on the precipice of making a - shall we say "adventurous"? - decision and thought, "But think of the poem I'll get out of this." Most of them have paid off."

“I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Let’s just put it this way: if you think there’s a thing – anything – women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.”

Source : Kameron Hurley (2016). “The Geek Feminist Revolution”, p.264, Macmillan

“It's the economy, stupid.”

“I don't like to go to premieres or openings. I don't like to have to put on makeup.”

“That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.”

“When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.”

“I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.”

Source : Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.296, Bantam

“Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.”