 Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door. |
| Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover. |
| It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it. |
| Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought. |
| Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex. |
| A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold. |
| The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women. |
| So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title. |
| I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life. |
| We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head. |
| Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning. |
| I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. |
| Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital. |
| In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it. |
| As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses. |
| What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors. |
| I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist. |
| One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. |
| We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof. |
| It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan. |
