Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.
My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.
To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back.
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.
I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.
Cat my dogs ef it ain't de powerfulest dream I ever seen," as Joyce, quoting Twain, copied in his notebook on .
A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.
In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is pote...
Joyce: [after Edward cuts her hair] That was the single most thrilling experience of my entire life.
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Even though I'm not with their mother, it's important for my kids to see adults in a committed and happy relationship. They need to see a strong relationship. You don't have to settle.
I can't wait for everyone to read 'Don't Look Back.' It's something very different for me, my first romantic suspense novel, so I'm very excited to be sharing the book, finally.
I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.
As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
I’m the winner of the “Best Interpretive Dance” for my adaptation of Joyce’s Ulysses into crunk. That’s cool and all, but you should see my Dostoevsky.
Parents are supposed to instill a sense of right and wrong in their children and then keep up the due diligence necessary to make sure they don't veer off that path.
