"If you look for problems, you will find problems; if you look for solutions, you will find solutions."

“I'm convinced I will be cleared of all these charges that were unfairly leveled against me.”

“A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.”

Source : Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.77, Knopf

“I will fly around the world doing good for the environment.”

“The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.”

“I think I have fallen in love and I believe the woman in question, though she has not said so, returns my feelings. How can I be sure when she has said nothing? Is this youthful vanity? I wish in some ways that it were. But I am so convinced that I barely need question myself. This conviction brings me no joy.[…]I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive.”

“I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.”

Source : "'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' Actress Losses 250 lbs, Wants to Act Again". Interview, www.worstpreviews.com. August 10, 2012.

“I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.”

“I'm having the weirdest sense of deja vu right now," said the green caterpiller. Duh!" said the blue caterpiller. "Do you think, just maybe, that's because you predicted this?" Oh, yeah." --The Looking Glass Wars”