"Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone about four months without writing a thing."

“I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.”

“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”

Source : "Open Secrets". Book by Alice Munro, 1994.

“3-D movies can make me nauseous.”

“Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.”

Source : Bob Monkhouse (1991). “The complete speaker's handbook”

“The '90s were really just bad for fashion and hair.”

Source : "‘Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke On Daenerys’ ‘Blueprint’ For The Future". Interview with Maureen Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

“I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.”

“A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She may indeed discover that she spends all her waking hours with her fellow to the exclusion of every other friend or family member. This is understandable, but wholly unacceptable, to society.”

“I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.”