"Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender."

“It's part of the reason I decided to speak out now. This was the tipping point for me. If it's O.K. for [David Petraeus ] to campaign for a job in the administration, then I'm going to campaign to get back out there, too.”

Source : Source: www.vanityfair.com

“Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.”

“It’s difficult to find a person who can accept the truth consistently and more when it is related to him only and that’s what keeps the difference between the real talk and the negative talk very marginal.”

“Your nature is not the problem. The problem is that you have become alienated from your nature -- from your power source.”

“I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.”

“Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.”

Source : "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead". Book by Nell Scovell and Sheryl Sandberg, March 11, 2013.

“Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.”

“I want to go to college, and I want to keep acting and singing.”

Source : "Miranda Cosgrove Interview DESPICABLE ME". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.