A woman can see a woman so clearly – faluts, excellences, details – all are so clear to her.

My mom was a model, and her laid-back but put-together sensibility really rubbed off on me.

But I’ve always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she’s just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.

Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don’t know what’s going to fall on the page. I just did this image of a fat girl and put her on a tiny...

Since her landmark ‘Tapestry,’ Carole King has both oversimplified and over elaborated that masterful album’s style until her music has become something more overtly but less effectively personal.

When I began to study baby delivery, when I was about to have a baby, I became very into it and fascinated and what our body does and how a mother’s body temperature will rise...

You made me to think of others, by thinking others I may forget you… Be Aware

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.

My wife is my soul mate. I can’t imagine being without her.

Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.

I would not take a girl to a club on a Thursday. I would not take her to a really noisy, swanky restaurant.

I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.

I just can’t feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don’t understand her and want to understand her.

Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn’t be ‘True Blood’ if someone wasn’t trying to kill her.

I promised my daughter I’d name my first restaurant after her, but now the other kids are like, ‘Dad, what about us?’ I’m gonna have to open four restaurants!

Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn’t doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail...

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger’s voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men’s eyes...

I’m an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn’t let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

I was sent to boarding school at the age of ten. I think Mummy was trying to protect me in her own way, trying to spare me living through the day-to-day reality of her illness.

I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn’t, so I think it is possibly the end.

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and...

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She’s like, ‘I can’t read, I can’t write; I can...

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.

My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I’ll be showing her the bright lights of New York.

I tell people to be thankful that Madonna is showing that it’s possible to be ageless – people should applaud and celebrate that. Anybody who criticises her is just jealous!