"When the Iron Curtain fell, all of the West rejoiced that the East would become just as free as the West. It was never supposed to be the other way around."

“So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.”

“Success can be obviously a two way street.”

“I've always been a very prolific writer.”

Source : "Nanci Griffith finds her voice again". Interview with Quinn Brown, edition.cnn.com. August 6, 2009.

“Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.”

“In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.”

Source : Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

“I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.”

“I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.”

“The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.”